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Meaning muffle meaning

What does muffle mean?
Definitions in simple English

muffle Verb

— If you muffle someone, you wrap a person in fabric for warmth or protection. He muffled up his daughter to prevent her from catching a cold. — If you muffle something, you wrap or cover it to lower or mute the sound.

muffle

— verb (= smother, strangle) conceal or hide smother a yawn muffle one's anger strangle a yawn — verb deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping — noun a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature

Synonyms muffle synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as muffle?

muffle English » English

mute deaden dampen stifle smother damp strangle silence repress cover tone down shroud dull cloak blanket wrap veil top tackle swallow suppress suffocate squelch squash span slake silencer screen reduce quench quell quash pulley overlay muzzle mat mantle jammer hush hoist force back enshroud defray cushion curtain cover over contend over clothe choke off choke down

Topics muffle topics

What do people use muffle to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Quiet
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Say nothing

Conjugation muffle conjugation

How do you conjugate muffle?

muffle · verb

Examples muffle examples

How do I use muffle in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Muffle the rest of them tholes.
I stuck it in the suitcase to muffle the sound.
Doyle then takes Madame Van Schuyler's stole which he had previously hidden, and wrapping up the gun in it in order both to muffle sound and to prevent scorching, fires a bullet into his own leg.
Muffle the gunshot.
But she learned how to muffle the bell, by stuffing a sock into it. And inching her way out of the bed. And into the night.
That'll muffle the signal.
Muffle it, junior.
And then later the same day. The Beretta was fired three times in all from a distance of less than four feet, using one of the bedroom pillows to muffle the noise.
Look, if we can't remove it, can't we at least muffle it somehow?
Wrap a towel around a pistol to muffle the sound.
Can you muffle them?
This'll muffle the shot.
And in between the mini-marts you've got the car lots, gas stations, muffle shops, laundromats, cheap hotels fast food joints, strip clubs and dirty bookstores.!
You covered her mouth with a blanket to muffle the crying.
Edeson and director Lewis Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front, in 1930, liberated the camera from the cumbersome booths that had been used to muffle noise when sound was introduced in the late 1920s.
They may not hear us. We'll muffle the wheels and hooves.
If you don't mind, I would like to use your pillow. Muffle the gunshot.
FRIENDLY: Muffle the noises, glue it together, the whole mess.
But she learned how to muffle the bell by stuffing a sock into it. and inching her way out of the bed. and into the night.
A refreshment for those who've run out of words for the shadow of children to muffle the hammering of shoemakers.
Put a pillow over your lap. You'll muffle the voices.
Were you trying to muffle this?
We'll muffle the wheels and hooves.
This call was familiar to her, it hovered above our heads, and the sand couldn't muffle it.
And the committee have it in the works to issue a D-Notice on the whole business. muffle the press, put a lid on it.
To muffle the sound,he shot through a pillow.
Steel wool-- commonly used in silencers to muffle the sound of a gunshot.
So you were just trying to muffle the noise so she didn't wake the whole building.
Muffle your arms!
One of them uses that towel to muffle the beeping keypad, other guy comes over here, disconnects the alarm.
It's to muffle the cries so I can get back to work!
Shooter used a pillow to muffle the sound.

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