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say it: skwelcht
squelched is an adjective meaning "subdued or overcome". It carries one recorded sense.
subdued or overcome
“the quelled rebellion”
“an uprising quenched almost before it started”
“a squelched rumor”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for squelched come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.