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squelch: suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"; walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow"; make a sucking sound

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undermining collapse

demolition collapse: the act of demolishing

snuff out collapse: put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"; put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"

jump on collapse

asphyxiate collapse

soft pedal collapse: a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound

whoosh collapse: gush or squirt out; "Oil whooshed up when the drill hit the well"

effervesce collapse

dumbfound collapse

whish collapse: move with a whishing sound; "The car whished past her"; make a sibilant sound

stamp out collapse: end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"

black out collapse: suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"; darken completely; "The dining room blackened out"; obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"

hold down collapse: restrain; "please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep"; keep; "She manages to hold down two jobs"

crack down on collapse

stultify collapse: cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"; prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"

whistling collapse: the act of whistling a tune; "his cheerful whistling indicated that he enjoyed his work"

quash collapse

confute collapse

rebuttal collapse: the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument

sibilate collapse: utter a sibilant; pronounce with an initial sibilant

clamp down on collapse

stanch collapse

subversion collapse: the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government

sizzling collapse: hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather"

shush collapse: silence (someone) by uttering `shush!'

squish collapse: the noise of soft mud being walked on; put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action

quench collapse: cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"; reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance; satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"; electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device

fizz collapse: an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)

undermine collapse

refutation collapse: the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it"

stertor collapse

drown collapse: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"; get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"; kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"

swish collapse: a brushing or rustling sound

shut down collapse

lisp collapse: a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists; a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'; speak with a lisp

rebut collapse

refute collapse: prove to be false or incorrect; overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"

keep down collapse: manage not to throw up

sit on collapse

demolish collapse: defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"; destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"

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