[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.", "to put down, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to make a splashing sound.", "to tread heavily in water, mud, wet shoes, etc., with such a sound."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a squelched or crushed mass of anything.", "a splashing sound.", "an act of squelching or suppressing, as by a crushing retort or argument.", "Also calledsquelch? cir?cuit,Electronics.a circuit in a receiver, as a radio receiver, that automatically reduces or eliminates noise when the receiver is tuned to a frequency at which virtually no carrier wave occurs."]}]