Squelch vs Suppress - What's the difference?
squelch | suppress |
(US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Carlyle
(radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of your receiver.
(British) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground
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(British) to walk or step through a substance such as mud
A squelching sound.
to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue
to restrain or repress an expression
(psychiatry) to exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind
to prevent publication
to stop a flow or stream
(US, legal) to forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained
(electronics) to reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal
(obsolete) to hold in place, to keep low
As verbs the difference between squelch and suppress
is that squelch is (us) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force while suppress is to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.As a noun squelch
is a squelching sound.squelch
English
Verb
(es)- Even the king’s announcement could not squelch the rumors.
- Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched .
- If you deceive us you will be squelched .
- The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.
- The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.
Synonyms
* (to halt) quashNoun
(squelches)Derived terms
* squelchysuppress
English
Verb
- ''Political dissent was brutally suppressed .
- ''I struggled to suppress my smile.
- He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.
- The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.
- The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.
- ''Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.