[
UK
/mˈʌfəl/
]
[ US /ˈməfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈməfəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
VERB
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
-
suppress in order to conceal or hide
strangle a laugh
smother a yawn
muffle one's anger
repress a cry of fear
How To Use muffle In A Sentence
- Mrs. Dudgeon unbars the door and opens it, letting into the stuffy kitchen a little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair-haired, round-faced man of about 22, muffled in a plaid shawl and grey overcoat. The Devil's Disciple
- Two big screens and an electronic scoreboard made up for a muffled PA. Times, Sunday Times
- The driver deadened the noise of the car with a new muffler.
- What wouldn't burn still remained: bare walls muffled with incongruous tapestries, flooring tamped over with carpets.
- No more fuzzy programmes with muffled sound and colours like confetti in a puddle. The Sun
- Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
- Pete sounded muffled. and as he turned Marcus noticed that he too had a loose thread on his shirt.
- It would take years before the noise would be muffled by mains electricity. Times, Sunday Times
- That was all of the incident, but he heard Ruth muffle a dry sob in her throat, and noticed that she turned her face away to gaze out of the window. Chapter 26
- With muffled thuds and a yelp, Ace and the thief tussled on the floor.
