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Muffle   /mˈəfəl/   Listen
Muffle

verb
(past & past part. muffled; pres. part. muffling)
1.
Conceal or hide.  Synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle.  "Muffle one's anger" , "Strangle a yawn"
2.
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.  Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down.
noun
1.
A kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature.



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"Muffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... appeared to enjoy a quieter phase of existence than the temple. Some of its windows too were aglow; the lower casements opened upon the lawn; curtains concealed the interior, and partly obscured the ray of the candles which lit it, but they did not entirely muffle the sound of voice and laughter. We are privileged to enter that front door, and to penetrate to ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... moved forward. The underbrush was thick on either side of the narrow, stony way that wound between sheer cliffs. We had torn up our blankets and shirts to muffle the horses' feet, that no sound of hoofs, striking upon the rocky path, might reach the ears of the Cheyenne and his allies crouching watchfully above us. At the head marched Captain Jenness and Scout Pliley, each with his ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter

... are the English knights, I cried, Who all their better feelings hide; Who muffle up their hearts with care, To hide the virtues nestling there, Who neither ...
— The Lay of Marie • Matilda Betham

... like primitive fire-worshippers, they hail the return of light and warmth to the world, is unrivalled. There are a hundred singing like one. They are noisy enough then, and sing, as poets should, with no afterthought. But when they come after cherries to the tree near my window, they muffle their voices, and their faint pip, pip, pop! sounds far away at the bottom of the garden, where they know I shall not suspect them of robbing the great black-walnut of its bitter-rinded store.[P] They are feathered Pecksniffs, to be sure, but then how brightly their breasts, ...
— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education

... profound lethargy the sentinels (as we are told was done by an angel to the gaolers of Peter's prison), rolled back the triple gates of bronze, strewed the sweet moghra-flowers thickly beneath his horse's feet to muffle every sound, and he was free. Free? Yes—to resign every earthly comfort, every sensuous enjoyment, the sweets of royal power, the homage of a Court, the delights of domestic life: gems, the glitter of gold: rich stuffs, rich food, soft beds: the songs ...
— The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons • H.S. Olcott


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