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Quelch

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Word	Definition
squelchnoun	(radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
quellverb	(transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
quashverb	To defeat decisively, to suppress.
put downverb	(idiomatic) To insult, belittle, or demean.
querknoun	(intransitive) To grunt, croak, squeal; to moan, complain; to sigh, huff; to emit a breath forcibly, as after great exertion.
put the kibosh onverb	(slang, transitive) To halt, stop, or squelch.
restinguishverb	(obsolete, transitive) To quench or extinguish.
quenchnoun	The act of quenching something; the fact of being quenched.
quailnoun	Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
quitchnoun	Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)
squashnoun	(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
toquashverb	(transitive, obsolete) To beat or crush to pieces.
snuff outverb	(transitive) To extinguish (literally, especially by physically covering or rubbing); to extinguish (figuratively): to stop (a process), to kill (a process).
acquietverb	(obsolete, transitive) To quiet.
overquellverb	(transitive) To quell or subdue completely; gain or have power over.
strangleverb	(transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
outquenchverb	(archaic, transitive) To quench entirely; to extinguish.
beat downverb	(transitive) To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.
bleshnoun	A surname.
quealnoun	(intransitive, UK dialectal) To faint away.