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'squelch' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning to crush or suppress something (eg. He squelched the uprising with a heavy military presence). It can also be used figuratively in the sense of silencing or stopping someone (eg. She squelched any questions about the incident).
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In the very first second of opener On Sight, you are left alone in a field of distortion, a squelch of 303ish acid that rolls up and down a scale before settling into a loop of abrasive snarls.
With no visuals to distract you, every sawing sound and fleshy squelch is magnified, contrasting with the mundane noise of a car passing outside, a reminder of life going on in the streets beyond.
Gentle synth and piano lines start to squiggle and squelch, rhythms become skittish and then collapses into a lull and Nzaramba's voice shimmers through the haze; for the most part, there aren't really what you'd call songs, rather an assembly of melodies and ideas that coalesce for a short period before heading off to enjoy different vistas.
Then squelch into the mud pool, and cover yourself from head to toe with mineral-rich black slabs.
The Internet, the mobile phone, the ability to travel, the desire of most Russians, especially the young, to be part of a wider world, mean that attempts to squelch the press can only stifle the purveyors of news and debate a bit.
Meanwhile, war gives Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, an excuse to squelch dissent and muffle the press.
The commission is worried that Oracle, the world's biggest seller of proprietary database software with a market share of nearly 50%, will squelch MySQL, which it sees as a "a particularly important competitive force".Antitrust is now firmly established as a competitive weapon in the "platform wars" between big technology companies.
Not every decaying statue has come from a graveyard, he says.Nonetheless, police are continuing their probe, as officials try to squelch the gothic-chic market.
Seeking to squelch rumours that could dampen sales, Swiss-based Nestlé took out ads last week explaining that its products were not from Scandinavia.
HAVING failed to squelch digital piracy, can the record industry merge its way out of trouble?
Mr Tsipras could then become Greece's next prime minister with backing from other leftwing parties and perhaps, even, the PanHellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), which lost many votes to Syriza.On the evening of May 11th Mr Tsipras appeared to squelch hopes of forming a three-party coalition with Pasok and the centre-right New Democracy party, claiming their leaders were not taking him seriously.
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