| 词汇 | squelching |
| 释义 | squelching present participle ofsquelch squelch verb uk /skweltʃ/ us /skweltʃ/ squelchverb (SOUND)[ Iusually+ adv/prep ] to make a sucking sound like the one produced when you are walking on soft, wet ground: （如走在湿软土地上似的）发吧唧声，发扑哧声 He got out of the car and squelched through the mud to open the gate.他下了车，扑哧扑哧地穿过泥地去开大门。 Sounds made by objects, movement or impact bang around bleep boop choo-choo chuff clap along click away honk peal resonance rumble spit squeak susurrus swoosh thrum thunk tick-tock ticking whisper squelchverb (STOP)[ T ]US to quickly end something that is causing you problems: （迅速）制止，遏制 A spokeswoman at the White House has squelched rumors about the president's ill health.白宫一位女发言人迅速澄清了总统健康状况不佳的谣言。 [ T ]US to silence someone by criticizing them: （厉言）把…镇住，使不再出声 The senator thoroughly squelched the journalist who tried to interrupt him during his speech.参议员完全镇住了那个想在他讲话时插嘴的记者。 Causing something to end abandon abandonment all good things (must) come to an endidiom and have done with itidiom be over the humpidiom brake cure give over halt hang jack something in kill something stone-deadidiom lay lid snap snuff something out stamp on something stamp something out stanch staunch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Interrupting & preventing from speaking Examples of squelchingsquelching In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. They have to remain in school all day with their little shoes squelching after their long walk across the hills. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can she tolerate such conditions as exist when school rooms are described as "zoos"and school playgrounds as"squelching quagmires"or"dust baths"? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Well, you have not succeeded in squelching us, and we are here to-day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And yet you are apologizing for the squelching of minority views. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Through reporting the experience of people and small businesses, he argues that these new monopolies are squelching innovation, degrading product quality and safety, and destabilizing vital industrial and financial systems. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Squelching has been mostly studied in yeast, and most of the ideas regarding its mechanisms have come from research into modes of transcriptional control in yeast. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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