2. Noun. (plural of squelch) ¹
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Definition of Squelches
1. squelch [v] - See also: squelch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squelches
Literary usage of Squelches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Lisa squelches him with a withering "Wise guy!" Jason is soon tired of even
thinking of the new game. He knows that he has, as she says, everything in the ..."
2. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"That squelches the jealous betrothed. Now nothing remains but for you to continue
to dazzle the enamored Rachel, and so present yourself to the Justice as a ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"As to who the great man was who made this destructive remark, nobody will need
to guess twice; but it squelches Prof ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"As to who the great man was who made this destructive remark, nobody will need
to guess twice ; but it squelches Prof. Allman, and turns the British ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... coercing his front the while; squelches both these wings furiously together ;
forces the coerced centre, mostly horse, to plunge back into the Diemel, ..."
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