Definitions for muffle
ˈmʌf əlmuf·fle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. muffleverb

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

2. smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repressverb

   conceal or hide

   "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

3. muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone downverb

   deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mufflenoun

   Anything that mutes or deadens sound.

2. mufflenoun

   A warm piece of clothing for the hands.

3. mufflenoun

   A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)

4. muffleverb

   To wrap up (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection.

5. muffleverb

   To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.

6. muffleverb

   To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Muffleverb

   Etymology: from moufle, French, a winter glove.

   1. To cover from the weather.

   His muffled feature speaks him a recluse,
   His ruins prove him a religious house. John Cleveland.

   You must be muffled up like ladies. Dryden.

   The face lies muffled up within the garment. Addison.

   2. To blindfold.

   Alas that love, whose view is muffled still,
   Should without eyes see pathways to his ill. William Shakespeare.

   We’ve caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

   Our understandings lie grovelling in this lower region, muffled up in mists and darkness. Joseph Glanvill, Scep.

   Loss of sight is the misery of life, and usually the forerunner of death: when the malefactor comes once to be muffled, and the fatal cloth drawn over his eyes, we know that he is not far from his execution. Robert South, Sermons.

   Bright Lucifer
   That night his heav’nly form obscur’d with tears;
   And since he was forbid to leave the skies,
   He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. Dryden.

   One muffled up in the infallibility of his sect, will not enter into debate with a person that will question any of those things which to him are sacred. John Locke.

   3. To conceal; to involve.

   This is one of the strongest examples of a personation that ever was: although the king’s manner of shewing things by pieces, and by dark lights, hath so muffled it, that it hath left it almost as a mystery. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   No muffling clouds, nor shades infernal, can
   From his inquiry hide offending man. George Sandys, Paraph.

   The thoughts of kings are like religious groves,
   The walks of muffled gods. John Dryden, Don Sebastian.

   They were in former ages muffled up in darkness and superstition. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of John Bull.

2. To Muffleverb

   To speak inwardly; to speak without clear and distinct articulation.

   Etymology: maffelen, moffelen, Dutch.

   The freedom or apertness and vigour of pronouncing, as in the Bocca Romana, and giving somewhat more of aspiration; and the closeness and muffling, and laziness of speaking, render the sound of speech different. William Holder.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. muffle

   A muffle furnace or muffle oven (sometimes retort furnace in historical usage) is a furnace in which the subject material is isolated from the fuel and all of the products of combustion, including gases and flying ash. After the development of high-temperature heating elements and widespread electrification in developed countries, new muffle furnaces quickly moved to electric designs.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. muffle

   Muffle refers to reducing, softening, or suppressing the intensity or sharpness of a sound, a light, or other forms of physical sensations. It can also refer to wrapping or covering something to keep it warm, conceal it, or protect it from harm. In metallurgy, muffle refers to a container where materials are processed or heated in isolation from any contaminants.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mufflenoun

   the bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants

2. Muffleverb

   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. Muffleverb

   to prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen

4. Muffleverb

   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. Muffleverb

   to speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation

6. Muffleverb

   anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff

7. Muffleverb

   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. Muffleverb

   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. Muffleverb

   a pulley block containing several sheaves

10. Etymology: [F. moufle, prop., a mitten, from the resemblance in shape. See Muffle, v. t., Muff.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Muffle

   muf′l, n. the thick naked upper lip and nose, as of a ruminant. [Ger.]

2. Muffle

   muf′l, v.t. to wrap up as with a muff: to blindfold: to cover up so as to render sound dull, as a bell or a drum: to cover from the weather.—n. something used for smothering sound: a boxing-glove: a clay oven, as for firing pottery.—adj. Muff′led, wrapped up closely: dulled or deadened—of sound.—n. Muff′ler, a cover that muffles the face. [Muff.]

3. Muffle

   muf′l, v.i. to mumble.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. muffle

   To wrap with something that dulls or renders sound inaudible; to deaden the sound of; as, to muffle a drum.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of muffle in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of muffle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of muffle in a Sentence

1. Bob Menendez:

   Gun silencers are dangerous devices with one purpose and one purpose only – to muffle the sound of gunfire from unsuspecting victims, the sound of gunshots is what signals you to run, hide, take cover, call the police and help others save themselves; however, this is nearly impossible when a gun silencer is used.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=muffle
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Muffle
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=muffle
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffle
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muffle
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=muffle
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html