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French
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assourdir
, étouffer
, amortir
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Muffle
- (v. t.) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
- (n.) The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.
- (v. i.) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
- (v. t.) A pulley block containing several sheaves.
- (v. t.) Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.
Synonyms:
Damp, Dampen, Dull, Mute, Repress, Smother, Stifle, Strangle,
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• Muffled
- (imp. & p. p.) of Muffle
Synonyms:
Dull, Softened,
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• Muffler
- (n.) One who muffles.
- (n.) A kind of mitten or boxing glove, esp. when stuffed.
- (n.) Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet.
- (n.) A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.
- (n.) Any of various devices to deaden the noise of escaping gases or vapors, as a tube filled with obstructions, through which the exhaust gases of an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, are passed (called also silencer).
Synonyms:
Damper, Silencer,
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