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–verb (used with object)

1.	to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound: to muffle drums.

2.	to deaden (sound) by wrappings or other means.

3.	to wrap or envelop in a cloak, shawl, coat, etc., esp. to keep warm or protect the face and neck (often fol. by up): Muffle up the children before they go out.

4.	to wrap (oneself) in a garment or other covering: muffled in silk.

5.	to alter temporarily the profile of (a plaster mold) in order to run a base coat of plaster that will later be covered by a finish coat having the true profile.

–noun

6.	something that muffles.

7.	muffled sound.

8.	an oven or arched chamber in a furnace or kiln, used for heating substances without direct contact with the fire.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME mufeln, perh. aph. form of AF *amoufler, for OF enmoufler to wrap up, muffle, deriv. of moufle mitten (see en-¹, muff); (def. 8) directly < F moufle lit., mitten

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–noun

the thick, bare part of the upper lip and nose of ruminants and rodents.

[Origin: 1595–1605; < MF mufle muzzle, snout, prob. b. moufle chubby face (obscurely akin to G Muffel snout) and museau snout, muzzle

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muf·fle¹ Audio Help (mŭf'əl) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. muf·fled, muf·fling, muf·fles

To wrap up, as in a blanket or shawl, for warmth, protection, or secrecy.
1. To wrap or pad in order to deaden the sound: muffled the drums.
2. To deaden (a sound): The sand muffled the hoofbeats.
To make vague or obscure: "His message was so muffled by learning and 'artiness'" (Walter Blair).
To repress; stifle.

Something that muffles.
A kiln or part of a kiln in which pottery can be fired without being exposed to direct flame.

[Middle English muflen, possibly from Old French mofler, to stuff, from mofle, glove; see muff².]

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muf·fle² Audio Help (mŭf'əl) Pronunciation Key
n. The fleshy, hairless snout of certain mammals, such as ruminants.

[French mufle, perhaps blend of moufle, chubby face (from Old French; see muff²) and museau, muzzle (from Old French musel; see muzzle).]

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muffle (v.)

c.1430, "to cover or wrap (something) to conceal or protect," perhaps from M.Fr. mofler "to stuff," from O.Fr. moufle "thick glove, muff" (cf. O.Fr. enmoufle "wrapped up"); see muff (n.). Meaning "wrap something up to deaden sound" first recorded 1761. Muffler as a kind of scarf is from 1535; as an automobile exhaust system silencer, it is attested from 1895.

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muffle
noun
1.	a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
verb
1.	conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" [syn: smother]
2.	deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

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muffle [ˈmafl] verb

to deaden the sound of
Example: They used a gag to muffle his cries.

Arabic:	يَكْتُم الصَّوْت
Chinese (Simplified):	压抑（声音）
Chinese (Traditional):	壓抑(聲音)
Czech:	(u)tlumit
Danish:	dæmpe
Dutch:	dempen
Estonian:	summutama
Finnish:	vaimentaa
French:	assourdir
German:	dämpfen
Greek:	πνίγω θόρυβο
Hungarian:	tompít
Icelandic:	deyfa, kæfa hljóð
Indonesian:	meredam
Italian:	coprire, attenuare

Japanese:	音を消す
Korean:	소리를 죽이다
Latvian:	slāpēt
Lithuanian:	(pri)slopinti
Norwegian:	dempe lyd
Polish:	tłumić
Portuguese (Brazil):	abafar
Portuguese (Portugal):	abafar
Romanian:	a înăbuşi
Russian:	заглушать
Slovak:	(u)tlmiť
Slovenian:	zadušiti
Spanish:	amortiguar, ensordecer
Swedish:	dämpa, tysta ner
Turkish:	sesi boğmak

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Muffle

Maf"fle\, v. i. [Akin to OD. maffelen to stammer. Cf. Muffle to mumble.] To stammer. [Obs.]

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Muffle

Muf"fle\ (m[u^]f"f'l), n. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.

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Muffle

Muf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Muffling.] [Cf. F. moufle a mitten, LL. muffula, OD. moffel a muff. See Muff.]

1. 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. --South.

The face lies muffled up within the garment. --Addison.

He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. --Dryden.

Muffled up in darkness and superstition. --Arbuthnot.

2. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

3. 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.

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Muffle

Muf"fle\, v. i. [Cf. F. maffle, mumble, D. moffelen.] To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

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