Definitions for muffle

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muffle muf·fle

Spelling: [muhf-uh l]

IPA: /ˈmʌf əl/

Muffle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in muffle (efflmu).

Definitions for muffle

noun

1. something that muffles.
2. muffled sound.
3. an oven or arched chamber in a furnace or kiln, used for heating substances without direct contact with the fire.
4. the thick, bare part of the upper lip and nose of ruminants and rodents.

verb (used with object)

1. to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound:
2. to deaden (sound) by wrappings or other means.
3. to wrap or envelop in a cloak, shawl, coat, etc., especially to keep warm or protect the face and neck (often followed by up):
4. to wrap (oneself) in a garment or other covering:
5. to alter temporarily the profile of (a plaster mold) in order to run a base coat of plaster that will later be covered by a finish coat having the true profile.

Origin of muffle

1400-50; late Middle English mufeln, perhaps aphetic form of Anglo-French *amoufler, for Old French enmoufler to wrap up, muffle, derivative of moufle mitten (see en-

Examples for muffle

The mist seemed to muffle voices as well as obscure the vision.

She tried to muffle the words with her hand, but his passion swept him on.

Pulou (pu-lo'u)--to muffle; to cover the head and face (p. 31).

Susan Batson, a Hollywood acting coach, says that actors don't explicitly say that their goal is to muffle their words.

From that spot, the canvas pulsates before your eyes, like a fabric reaching out to muffle you—like a primordial soup, bubbling.

On the wall hung their deadly guns, with silencers on them to muffle the report.

Prague Fatale is authentic because Kerr can muffle the horror of this epoch in dramatic irony but he can also shout it out loud.

He pulled one out and slipped it over my head, zipping the mouth closed to muffle my voice.

Police theorized that her killer used the blanket to muffle the sound of the gunshots.

It was what had been used to muffle his cries, and he saw it was a handkerchief.