Synonyms of the word

squelch

• v. (transitive, US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
• v. (transitive, radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions…
• v. (intransitive, Britain) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
• v. (intransitive, Britain) to walk or step through a substance such as mud.
• n. A squelching sound.
• n. (radio technology) suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting…

circuit

• n. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution.
• n. The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
• n. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
• n. The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
• n. (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
• n. A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job.
• n. (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
• n. (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including.
• n. (law) Abbreviation of circuit court.
• n. (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
• n. By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially…
• n. (motor racing) A track on which a race in held.
• n. (obsolete) circumlocution.
• n. (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
• v. (obsolete) To travel around.

conquer

• v. To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
• v. To overcome an abstract obstacle.
• v. To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
• v. To acquire by force of arms, win in war.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

derision

• n. Act of treating with disdain.

footslog

• n. An instance of footslogging.
• v. (intransitive) to walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner; to trudge.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

inhibit

• v. to hinder; to restrain.

mash

• n. (obsolete) A mesh.
• n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
• n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
• n. Mashed potatoes.
• n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
• v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
• v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
• v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
• v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
• n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
• n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
• n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

pad

• n. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
• n. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
• n. A soft, or small, cushion.
• n. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
• n. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
• n. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
• n. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
• n. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
• n. A sanitary napkin.
• n. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
• n. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
• n. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing…
• n. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
• n. A keypad.
• n. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
• n. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord".
• n. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
• n. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
• n. (US, slang) A bed.
• n. (colloquial) A place of residence.
• n. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
• n. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
• n. A mousepad.
• n. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
• n. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
• v. (transitive) To stuff.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
• v. (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.
• n. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road…
• n. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
• n. The act of highway robbery.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
• v. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
• v. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
• v. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
• interj. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
• n. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

plod

• n. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
• v. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
• v. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
• v. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
• n. (obsolete) A puddle.
• n. (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers.
• n. (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

put-down

• n. An insult or barb; a snide or demeaning remark.

quell

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
• v. (transitive) To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit.
• v. (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
• v. To die.
• n. A subduing.
• n. A source, especially a spring.
• n. An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.

quench

• v. (transitive) To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
• v. (transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light.).
• v. (transitive) To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
• n. (physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the…

slog

• n. (chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
• n. (cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
• v. To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
• v. (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
• v. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

slop

• n. (now historical) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
• n. (in the plural, obsolete) Loose trousers.
• n. (uncountable) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.
• n. Scraps used as food for pigs.
• n. (dated) Human urine or excrement.
• n. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled…
• n. (chiefly plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
• v. (transitive) to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves.
• v. (transitive) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
• v. (transitive) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered…
• v. (transitive) to feed pigs.
• n. (archaic, back slang) A policeman.

slosh

• v. (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
• v. (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.
• v. (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.
• v. (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.
• v. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
• n. A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
• n. (computing) backslash, the character \.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

splash

• n. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
• n. A small amount of liquid.
• n. A small amount (of color).
• n. A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
• n. An impact or impression.
• n. (computing, informal) splash screen.
• n. (wrestling) A body press; A move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top…
• v. To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
• v. To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
• v. (transitive) to hit or expel liquid at.
• v. To create an impact or impression; to print, post or publicize prominently.
• v. (transitive) To spend (money).
• v. To launch a ship.

splosh

• v. to make the sound of splashing.
• v. to traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.
• v. to spill or spill over.
• n. (countable) A heavy splashing sound.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Tea (the drink).

squash

• n. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
• n. (Britain) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
• n. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
• n. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
• n. (obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
• v. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
• v. (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
• v. to be hit by the vegetable described below.
• n. (countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
• n. Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
• n. The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
• n. (obsolete, zoo, countable) Muskrat.

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

squelcher

• n. One who, or that which, squelches.

squish

• n. The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
• n. (politics, informal, derogatory) A political moderate (term used by conservative activists in the 1980s).
• v. To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).

subdue

• v. To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
• v. To bring (a country) under control by force.

suppress

• v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
• v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
• v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
• v. To prevent publication.
• v. To stop a flow or stream.
• v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
• v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
• v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

takedown

• n. (slang) A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
• n. (martial arts) A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both…
• n. Enforced removal of material from a website, etc.

tramp

• n. (pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
• n. (pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
• n. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
• n. Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
• n. (in apposition): Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted.
• v. To walk with heavy footsteps.
• v. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
• v. To hitchhike.
• v. (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
• v. (transitive) To travel or wander through.
• v. (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

trudge

• n. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
• v. (intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
• v. (transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc.