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muffled

[muhf-uhl]

verb (used with object)

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

to deaden (sound) by wrappings or other means.

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

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

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

something that muffles.

muffled sound.

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

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English mufeln, perhaps aphetic form of Anglo-French *amoufler, for Old French enmoufler to wrap up, muffle, derivative of moufle mitten (see en-¹, muff); (def. 8) directly < French moufle literally, mitten

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Example Sentences

Muffled drums beat a requiem for the nation's war dead here and throughout the world yesterday.

The recourse is to get a new board, but that is why they have muffled the paper.

He felt his talent muffled by the perpetual eavesdropping upon his every move.

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Muffled drums beat a requiem for the nation's war dead here and throughout the world yesterday.

The recourse is to get a new board, but that is why they have muffled the paper.

He felt his talent muffled by the perpetual eavesdropping upon his every move.

The muffled explosion's compression reverberates in my ribs.

Approaching the building a muffled thwack-thwack-thwack mechanical sound created by power looms can be heard.

Whether it's listening for the muffled footsteps of an enemy's approach or.

The only sound was the squeak of her pink toe shoes and the muffled flex of joints and muscles pushed to the limit.

About three weeks before each big tournament he would enter a bubble of concentration that muffled even the crowd's applause.

Muffled laughter and swearing from the pirate ship echoed across the water.

He minimized the risk of discovery by lining the cavity with cork, which muffled the noise from the bomb's.

Likewise, the speaker could get a little muffled by the wood.

Every bump of the shoulder on the plastic walls, every muffled cough, echoes loudly through the rows.

There are a few here, but they are rather muffled compared to some sites.

The whip landed with a muffled pop on the backs, buttocks, and legs of prisoners.

But the alarm can be muffled by placing a hand or piece of cloth over the speakers, police say.

Sweden is trying to address domestic violence, a crime that until recently remained muffled in shame.

The red doors to our apartment building are shut, and a muffled quiet descends over the day.

Rock these where it doesn't matter if the external din is muffled to a whisper.

Noise is effectively muffled but at an esthetic price by uncomely beige fabric panels the size of a double bed.

Once in a while there was a muffled thump as a mango hit the floor of leaves.

The parquet floors had long since gone gray and all the wood moldings were muffled with paint.

There was a tense air as tour guide commentary was muffled by locals gossiping.

Once up and running, call quality was impressive for domestic connections but sounded slightly muffled on overseas calls.

Pre-Columbian antagonists that bears out the paintings' muffled intimations of violence.

The officers could hear the muffled sounds of humanity through the quarter inch of metal.

They not only gave callers privacy but muffled the yelling often necessary during a phone call.

The film's sound fell somewhere between hollow and muffled.

Clamorous public events and private individual actions, equally, are muffled by memory.

The sound is muffled by wall-to-wall carpet tiles and fabric-lined cubicles.

Both plans were known by thousands, muffled by willing silence.

Those pulses are often accompanied by the distant, muffled sounds of crying infants.

As the doors closed, a muffled roar could be heard from the fans in the grandstand above.

Marc sang the aria with noticeable caution and a somewhat muffled sound.

But the sound of the muffled barks still drove him crazy, he said, and eventually he was forced to move.

Some recall one muffled shot, some two, some several.

Birds scream, and from below comes the muffled sound of traffic.

So people who hanker to express their own views find that their voices are muffled.

Several muffled gunshots were heard inside the trailer after the fire started, officials said.

It's as if the entire enterprise had been muffled in gray wool.

Indeed, understatement has muffled many of his prior performances, but this is the one that brings him out of his shell.

Also the muffled whooshing noises of distant explosions.

There were no muffled sentences and no disturbing explosive utterances.

In the film's eeriest moment, they put their ears to the dirt and listen in wonder to his muffled death throes.

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Word Origin & History

muffle

early 15c., "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. Related: Muffled; muffling.

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"Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form, poor and sad and single, in some Dolly or Joan, go out to service, and sweep chambers and scour floors, and its effulgent daybeams cannot be muffled or hid, but to sweep and scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions, the top and radiance of human life, and all people will get mops and brooms; until, lo! suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form, and done some other deed, and that is now the flower and head of all living nature."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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