allow vs squelch

allow

verb
  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

squelch

verb
  • To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force. 

  • To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength. 

  • To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground. 

  • To walk or step through a substance such as mud. 

noun
  • A squelching sound. 

  • A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres. 

  • The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver. 

How often have the words allow and squelch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )