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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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. Laith Khalef:

    That's a pretty big stimulus to those oil consumers, but we haven't really seen it yet, that's a theme that perhaps is not being played out in the market. Part of the reason the fuel price benefit is more muffled than in previous cycles, analysts say, is because consumers are paying down their own debt, uncertain about their future wage growth. Another reason is that there are more things to spend money on that are not tracked by traditional measures, such as online home-sharing service Airbnb or car ride service Uber.

  3. Charles De Gaulle:

    Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity cannot be cured but it can be muffled with duct-tape.

  4. Billy Sawyer:

    I started yelling and Michelle yelled back, very faintly, and it was muffled -- 'Help me! Help me!'.

  5. 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.

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