squelch

Object

• sound: My boots made a loud, horrible squelching sound with each step.
• control: Set the volume control on the CB's front panel to approximately one-third and the squelch control to at least three quarters.
• bass: There might be some big, fat, squelching analog bass on that particular track.
• technology: Governments that try to squelch the new information technologies to protect their monopoly on power do so essentially at the peril of economic growth.
• effect: PCB 98 tells of road trips and jellyfish stings, complete with squelching jellyfish sound effect.
• circuit: Normal squelch circuits would lift, resulting in the controller hearing loud bursts of static noise.

Preposition: through

• mud: In spring and summer we squelched through mud to reach our quarters, in winter through knee-deep snow.

Modifying Another Word

• back: Squelching back, they meet Foley, who pretends not to know Peter, much to Peter's astonishment.
• underfoot: The overnight rain lies in puddles on the road; the earth squelches softly underfoot.
• quickly: Outside of one well-publicized ( and quickly squelched ) attempt in Belgium, no one has tried to formally indict Bush.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• up: Squelching up to the loco, I was treated with the same lack of surprise by the crew.
• around: They even have weird synth noises squelching around in the back ground.
• out: The next push came immediately, and the baby's body squelched out into the water.

Followed by a transitive particle

• up: Now the worst part of these days, an hour squelching up the road back to the hostel.

Preposition: in

• mud: D loves squelching in the mud & I worry he might fall over.