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muffle

noun

1 muffle

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

Dutch: moffel, moffeloven

verb

1 muffle

Suppress in order to conceal or hide:
— Muffle one's anger.

synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle.

Roget 403: be silent etc. adj.; hold one's tongue etc. (not speak) 585.    render silent etc. adj.; silence, still, hush; stifle, ... show more

Roget 528: conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle up.    encrypt, encode, cipher.    cover, screen, cloak, veil, ... show more

Roget 581: keep silence etc. 585; speak low, speak softly; whisper etc. (faintness) 405.    silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, ... show more

Roget 583: stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate, balbucinate, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.    mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; ... show more

Dutch: temperen

2 muffle

Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.

synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down.

Dutch: dempen


Moby thesaurus: acoustic tile, antiknock, antlia, apply to, baffle, baffler, beak, beezer, bill, black out, blanket, block, bugle, bundle up, canopy, censor, choke, choke off, cloak, clothe ... show more.

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