Definitions for muffled
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. dull, muffled, muted, softenedadjective

   being or made softer or less loud or clear

   "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets"

2. muffledadjective

   wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy

   "children muffled almost to the eyebrows"

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1. muffled

   Muffled refers to a sound that is significantly subdued, muted, or softened and less distinct because it has been obstructed or deadened in some way. It can also describe a sense or expression that has been restrained, suppressed, or covered.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Muffled

   of Muffle

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of muffled in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of muffled in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of muffled in a Sentence

1. Leo C. Rosten:

   In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

2. Alan Moore:

   It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

3. Davide Capello:

   At some point I heard a muffled sound... I saw the cars in front of me going [ down ]. I felt the asphalt was gone and I found Davide Capello going down in my car... I thought that it would be the end, that I was going to die, then my car stopped, there wasn't a head-on crash, so it got embedded somewhere.

4. Ed Walton:

   we heard a muffled boom

5. Denis Diderot:

   The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

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