'Muffle' definitions:
Definition of 'muffle'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Muffle'
From: GCIDE
- Muffle \Muf"fle\, v. i. [Cf. F. maffle, mumble, D. moffelen.] To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Muffle'
From: GCIDE
- Muffle \Muf"fle\ (m[u^]f"f'l), n. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Muffle'
From: GCIDE
- Muffle \Muf"fle\, n. [F. moufle, prop., a mitten, from the resemblance in shape. See Muffle, v. t., Muff.]
- 1. Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A pulley block containing several sheaves. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Muffle'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The face lies muffled up within the garment. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Muffled up in darkness and superstition. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To wrap or fit 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; to muffle the exhaust of a motor vehicle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'muffle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acoustic tile,
- antiknock,
- antlia,
- apply to,
- baffle,
- baffler,
- beak,
- beezer,
- bill,
- black out,
- blanket,
- block,
- bugle,
- bundle up,
- canopy,
- censor,
- choke,
- choke off,
- cloak,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- conceal,
- conk,
- cope,
- cover,
- cover up,
- cowl,
- curtain,
- cushion,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dampener,
- damper,
- deaden,
- deafen,
- dull,
- dumbfound,
- eclipse,
- enfold,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- film,
- gag,
- hap,
- hood,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- hushcloth,
- kill,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- mantle,
- mask,
- mellow,
- muffle up,
- muffler,
- mute,
- muzzle,
- nares,
- neb,
- nib,
- nose,
- nostrils,
- nozzle,
- obduce,
- obscure,
- occult,
- olfactory organ,
- overlay,
- overspread,
- pecker,
- proboscis,
- protect,
- put on,
- put to silence,
- quash,
- quiet,
- quieten,
- quietener,
- repress,
- rhinarium,
- rostrum,
- schnozzle,
- screen,
- scum,
- shield,
- shroud,
- shush,
- shut down on,
- silence,
- silence cloth,
- silencer,
- sit on,
- smeller,
- smother,
- snoot,
- snout,
- soft pedal,
- soft-pedal,
- soften,
- sordine,
- sordino,
- sound-absorbing material,
- soundproofing,
- soundproofing insulation,
- sourdine,
- spread over,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stifle,
- still,
- stop,
- strangle,
- strike dumb,
- subdue,
- superimpose,
- superpose,
- suppress,
- swaddle,
- swathe,
- throttle,
- tone down,
- trunk,
- veil,
- wrap,
- wrap up