Definitions of Muffle [ˈmʌf əl]

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Definition of 'Muffle'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) muffle
to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound:
to muffle drums.

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

3.  muffle
to wrap or envelop in a shawl, coat, etc., esp. to keep warm or protect the face and neck (often fol. by up).

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

5.  muffle
to suppress; stifle.

6. (n.) muffle
something that muffles.

7.  muffle
muffled sound.

8.  muffle
an oven to heat something, as pottery.

9. (n.) muffle
the thick, bare part of the upper lip and nose of ruminants and rodents.

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

Definition of 'Muffle'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) muffle
a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature

2. (verb) smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
conceal or hide
"smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

3. (verb) muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

Definition of 'Muffle'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Muffle
the bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants

2. (verb) Muffle
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

3. (verb) Muffle
to prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen

4. (verb) Muffle
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

5. (verb) Muffle
to speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation

6. (verb) Muffle
anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff

7. (verb) Muffle
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

8. (verb) Muffle
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

9. (verb) Muffle
a pulley block containing several sheaves

Translation of 'Muffle'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to deaden the sound of They used a gag to muffle his cries.
Afrikaans: demp	Arabic: يَكْتُم الصَّوْت	Bulgarian: заглушавам
Brazilian: abafar	Czech: (u)tlumit	German: dämpfen
Danish: dæmpe	Greek: πνίγω θόρυβο	Spanish: amortiguar, ensordecer
Estonian: summutama	Farsi: دم دهان کسی را گرفتن	Finnish: vaimentaa
French: assourdir	Hebrew: לְעַמֵם	Hindi: आवाज दबाना
Croatian: prigušiti zvuk	Hungarian: tompít	Indonesian: meredam
Icelandic: deyfa, kæfa hljóð	Italian: coprire, attenuare	Japanese: 音を消す
Korean: (목소리, 소리를) 죽이다	Lithuanian: (pri)slopinti	Latvian: []slāpēt
Malay: membalut	Dutch: dempen	Norwegian: dempe lyd
Polish: tłumić	Persian: دم دهان کسی را گرفتن	Pashto: د چا غږ مخه نیول
Portuguese: abafar	Romanian: aînăbuşi	Russian: заглушать
Slovak: (u)tlmiť	Slovenian: zadušiti	Serbian: prigušiti
Swedish: dämpa, tysta ner	Thai: ลดเสียงลง	Turkish: sesi boğmak
Taiwanese: 捂住(聲音)	Ukrainian: глушити, заглушати	Urdu: آواز دبانا
Vietnamese: bóp nghẹt	Chinese: 压抑（声音）
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