muffle

Speech parts

1. muffle - Noun

2. muffle - Verb

Meaning

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

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.

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

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.

To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

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

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.

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.

A pulley block containing several sheaves.

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The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest. Emily Dickinson

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. Dorothy L. Sayers

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. John Podhoretz

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night. Kahlil Gibran

smother a yawn Source: Internet

muffle one's anger Source: Internet

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