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# squelch

«squelch» in Mova's school dictionary: **to walk through soft, wet mud so that it makes a loud…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (squelch, squelches, squelched, squelching); noun (a squelch)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To squelch is to walk through soft, wet mud so that it makes a loud sucking sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squelch/#m1)

2) A squelch is that sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squelch/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a traveller or animal wades through mud, and the squelching sound shows how deep and wet the ground is

### examples

- My boots squelched in the mud after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squelch/#x1)
- The cow squelched across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squelch/#x2)
- We heard a loud squelch as Dad stepped in the puddle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squelch/#x3)
- The muddy path squelched under our feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squelch/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «squelch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squelch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.