单词 | squelch |
释义 | squelch I. 1. a. b. < he heard … the squelch of turf as she ran toward him — Elizabeth Taylor > 2. < the squelch of mud > 3. a. < the producer … boldly ignored the squelch and went right ahead … in defiance of the industry's rules — Bosley Crowther > especially b. or squelch circuit II. transitive verb 1. a. b. (1) < a spirit here which a thousand years of misery had not squelched — Henry Miller > < only three amendments were suggested … and each was squelched after a brief word — Dorothy Kahn > (2) < presiding at board meetings … and squelching shareholders in the middle of sentences — P.G.Wodehouse > 2. < their broken shoes squelching water — Marcia Davenport > intransitive verb 1. < have manure in my shoes and hear it squelch as I walked — Dylan Thomas > 2. < squelch through a miry farm gateway — Adrian Bell > < his feet inside the sodden seaboots squelched icily whenever he moved — Nicholas Monsarrat > |
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