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Muffle

verb

(past & past part. muffled; pres. part. muffling)

Conceal or hide. Synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle. "Muffle one's anger" , "Strangle a yawn"

Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping. Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down.

noun

A kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature.

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"Muffle" Quotes from Famous Books

... hamlet, two cottages, three public-houses, and a duck-pond, and that sort of thing. I only know it because Welch and I ran there once last year. It's in the Badgwick direction, about three miles by road, mostly along the level. I vote we muffle up fairly well, blazers and sweaters and so on, run to Worbury, tea at one of the cottages, and back in time for lock-up. How does ...

— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse

... graveyard, and it's proper to muffle the drums and lower the flags as we go by, and we'd better take off our hats, too; ...

— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott

... cords of American artillerymen. Their identification is a surprise to the dreamer, because one rather expects these figures to sulk in the deeper shadows and screen their dark, bearded faces with the broad brims of black felt hats or muffle themselves to the chin in long, flowing black cloaks that hide rapiers and stilettos and other properties of ...

— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... existence than the temple. Some of its windows too were aglow; the lower casements opened upon the lawn; curtains concealed the interior, and partly obscured the ray of the candles which lit it, but they did not entirely muffle the sound of voice and laughter. We are privileged to enter that front door, and to penetrate ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... half an hour, and then, that no precaution might be omitted, the crew were ordered to muffle their oars. This done, we resumed our way, but at a much quieter pace, the land rising up before us an uniform black mass against the deep violet of the star- studded sky, without the faintest suggestion of detail of any kind whereby to direct our course. How ...

— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood

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