Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mumble; mutter; speak indistinctly.
- noun The tumid and naked part of the upper lip and nose of ruminants and rodents.
- To infold or wrap up, especially in some cloth or woven fabric, so as to conceal from view or protect from the weather; wrap up or cover close, particularly the neck and face; envelop or inwrap in some covering.
- To blindfold.
- Figuratively, to wrap up or cover; conceal; involve.
- To envelop more or less completely in something that deadens sound: used especially of bells, drums, and oars. See
muffled . - To restrain from speaking by wrapping up the head; put to silence.
- Synonyms Muzzle, etc. See
gag .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.
- intransitive verb To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
- noun Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
- noun (Metal.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.
- noun (Ceramics) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.
- noun A pulley block containing several sheaves.
- transitive verb To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with
up . - transitive verb To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
- transitive verb To wrap or fit with something that dulls or deadens the sound of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that
mutes ordeadens sound. - noun A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
- noun A
kiln orfurnace , oftenelectric , with nodirect flames (amuffle furnace ) - verb transitive To
wrap up (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, forwarmth orprotection . - verb transitive To
wrap up orcover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound. - verb transitive To
mute ordeaden (a sound etc.).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- verb conceal or hide
- noun a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
Etymologies
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Examples
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His muffle was a wreck, and such by degrees became the condition of all his apparatus.
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His muffle was a wreck, and such by degrees became the condition of all his apparatus.
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And all that means is that it's an earthquake, but you have 230 miles of dirt or crust to kind of muffle it a bit.
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Society-wide measures of religious behavior muffle portentous change that may be occurring at the younger edge of the population, so social prognosticators just like commercial advertisers focus on trends among young adults, trying to discern which aspects of behavior are what they are because the youths are young, and which aspects are what they are because of when they are young.
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That was all of the incident, but he heard Ruth muffle a dry sob in her throat, and noticed that she turned her face away to gaze out of the window.
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Saxon heard Billy muffle an ejaculation, and saw painted on his face the extremest astonishment.
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The Black Hawks were specially engineered to muffle the tail rotor and engine sound, two officials said.
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The hairs on its chin muffle its muttering, and its skin is moist, laughable, and it's big.
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As they grew stronger, she turned into her pillow and tried to muffle the sound in the feathery mass.
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If there is any noise in the house that wakes him, this will muffle it cut down on the noise that could be waking him up.
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