squelching

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English

Verb

squelching

  1. present participle and gerund of squelch
    • 1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 71:
      At Beddgelert, where the journey was broken for a luncheon interval, and where there should have been a glorious view, there was nothing for it but to alight on to the squelching ground of an open hillside.

Noun

squelching (plural squelchings)

  1. The act of something that squelches.
    • 1908, Frederick Niven, The Lost Cabin Mine:
      The sound of it was scarce louder than the hiss of the rain, a multitude of soft bubblings and squelchings.