Muffle

Definition: Muffle

Muffle

Noun

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

Verb

1. Conceal, suppress, or hide; "smother a yawn".

2. Deaden (a sound or noise), esp. by wrapping.

3. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "muffle" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Muffle

Aphony

Silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short.

Clothing

Verb: invest; cover; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest.

Concealment

Cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper.

Furnace

Noun: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat.

Stammering

Mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay.

Crosswords: Muffle

Old muffle furnace for assaying gold ores. Two Bit Creek, near Deadwood, South Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It compelled him, however, to muffle his hand in a bandage

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Expressions using "muffle": muffle oneself up ♦ muffle up ♦ To muffle the oars. Additional references.

Albanian

mbyt zërin, mbulohem (mantle), mbështjell (clothe, coil, encase, enfold, enlace, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, involve, lap, mantle, nuzzle, overcast, reel, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, underpin, wind, wind on, wrap, wreathe), zhurmëmbytës (damper, muffler, silencer), vishem (Don, dress, garb, get dressed), shall (cravat, muffler, neckcloth, neckerchief, neckpiece, scarf, shawl, throw, wrap), dorashka prej lëkure, dorashka pa gisht (muffler), amortizoj (absorb, amortise, amortize, break). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لفه بشىء ما, ‏عصب العينين (blindfold), ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, palliate, qualify, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slack, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin, water down), ‏خفت, ‏أخمد (dampen, die out, expire, fall, hush, lay, oppress, put out, quench, scotch, slake, smolder, smoulder, squelch, stifle, subside, suppress, trail off), ‏دثر (pad, swaddle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увивам (cockle, coddle, enfold, enlace, enwrap, pack, twine, wind, wrap, wrap up), муцуна на преживно животно, муфел, заглъхвам (die away, die down, die out, quiet, trail), боксьорска ръкавица (boxing glove, mitt, mitten), претъпявам (jam, turn), потискам (clamp, depress, domineer, drive back, flatten, get down, grind, gripe, inhibit, mope, oppress, persecute, pocket, press in, prey, quell, quench, repress, suppress, throttle, tyrannize, weigh down). (various references)

Chinese 

裹住 (Muffled, Muffling). (various references)

Czech

zahalit (blot out, enshroud, shroud), tlumit (absorb, baffle, damp, mute, temper). (various references)

Danish

muffel. (various references)

Dutch

moffel. (various references)

Finnish

vaimentaa (moderate), hiljentää (calm, hush, quiet, still, subdue, tone down). (various references)

French

moufle, s'emmitoufler, four � moufle, envelopper, emmitoufler, assourdissons, assourdissez, assourdissent, assourdir (mute), amortir, étouffer. (various references)

German

einhüllen (clothe, cover, drape, enfold, enshroud, envelop, jacket, swathe, to jacket, wrap, wrap up). (various references)

Greek 

καλύπτω (blanket, cap, cloak, cover, defray, enshroud, mat, span, veil), κατασιγάζω (hush, silence, squash), κουκουλώνω, σκεπάζω (blanket, cloak, clothe, contend over, cover, cover over, curtain, mantle, screen, shroud, top), πνίγω ήχο, πνίγω (choke, drown, overwhelm, smother, stifle, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle), θάλαμος κλιβάνου. (various references)

Hebrew 

י�"ו� ית (handcuff, manacle), לכסות (conceal, cover, hide, shroud, span, strew), ל�'מ�'ם (hum and haw, splutter, stammer, stutter). (various references)

Hungarian

ujjatlan kesztyű, tokos kemence, egyujjas kesztyű (mittens, muffler), burkolat (casing, coverage, encasement, envelope, husk, jacket, masking, overlay, pavement, revetment, sheet, swathe), bevonat (coat, coating, envelope, glaze, tarnish), bebugyolál (to bundle, to enswathe, to swathe, to tie up, to tuck up), égetõkemence (incinerator). (various references)

Indonesian

meredamkan (deaden), meredam (hush something up), membekap. (various references)

Italian

muffola (mitten), smorzare (absorb, appease, be appeased, cushion, dampen, deaden, dim, dull, fade, grow fainter, quench), proteggere (cover, defend, Favor, favour, guard, overshadow, patronise, patronize, preserve, promote, protect, scorers, screen, shade, shelter, shield, take care, ward), ovattare (pad), coprire (be covered, become overcast, cap, cover, cover oneself, deck, drape, hold, lay down with, lay over, overgrow, overlay, overspread, screen, shroud, smother, suffuse, to cover, top, veil, whitewash, wrap up), bendare (bandage, blindfold, dress, fasten), avvolgere (befog, cloak, enclose, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inclose, lap, pack, package, reel, roll, shroud, wind, wrap, wrap up), attenuare (alleviate, attenuate, dilute, dull, ease, extenuate, mitigate, soften, subdue, tone down, understate). (various references)

Korean 

싸십시�". (various references)

Manx

plooghey (asphyxia, asthma, choke, choking, congest, congestion, cushion, fugginess, glut, inundate, inundation, restrain, smother, smothering, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, tamp), muffyl, follaghtyn (burke, conceal, concealment, disguise, hide, mask, veneer), follaghey (bo-peep, cache, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, dissimulation, hide, hiding, occult, occultation, secrecy, secrete, veil), coodaghey dy mie. (various references)

Pig Latin

ufflemay.(various references)

Portuguese

mufla (decorating kiln), luva sem dedos (mitten), luva de boxe (muffler), cobrir (bescreen, blanket, case, clapboard, clothe, coat, come over, cope, cover, cover up, curtain, daub, deck, drape, encase, enfold, face, fleece, incase, mantle, overgrow, overlay, overlie, overspread, pelt, putty, serve, shell, sow, spread, suffuse, to collect, to cover, top, wrap), amortecer (absorb, amortize, benumb, blunt, break, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, fade, rebate, weaken), amordaçar (gag, muzzle), agasalhar (wrap, wrap up), abafar (blanket, burke, choke, cover up, cushion, damp, drench, drown, hugger-mugger, hush up, pilfer, quell, smother, steal the show, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references)

Romanian

se înveli (cover, wrap up), înveli (case, cover, encase, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fleece, lap, mantle, roof, sheathe, tuck, wrap), înfofoli, înfãşura (braid, coil, convolve, enfold, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, fold, furl, lap, pack, parcel, roll, swathe, twine, wind, wrap), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, quash, quell, quench, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Russian 

рукавица (mitten, muffler), кутать (wrap), глушить, муфель, многошкивный блок, закутывать;глушить, закутывать (enfold, enfolding, wrap up), заглушать (damp, deaden, deafen, drown, silences, silencing), боксерская перчатка (boxing glove). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umotati (enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap), ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, nip, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, squash, stall, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), prigušiti (absorb). (various references)

Spanish

mufla (block and fall, rigging of blocks, tackle). (various references)

Swedish

linda om (lap, swathe, whip), dämpa (Bate, chasten, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, dim, dull, kill, moderate, mute, quell, quench, subdue, supress, temper, tone down). (various references)

Turkish

sesi boğmak, sarınmak (wrap, wrap oneself up), sarınacak şey. (various references)

Ukrainian

шкіряна рукавиця, кашне (comforter, muffler), обмотувати, закутувати (shroud, wrap), заглушати (damp, deaf, deafen, drown, narcotize, stifle), боксерська рукавичка (boxing glove, pillow). (various references)

mofle. (various references)

mofler. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "muffle": muffled, muffler, mufflered, mufflers, muffles. (additional references)

Words ending with "muffle": unmuffle. (additional references)

Words containing "muffle": unmuffled, unmuffles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Muffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mafole, Mafulke, Mcfly, Mefalle, mefile, miffle, Mofeli, mosflm, moufflon, mouflon, niffle, smuffle. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: flume.

-2 letters: flue, fuel, fume, luff, muff, mule.

-3 letters: eff, elf, elm, emf, emu, fem, feu, flu, leu, lum, mel.

-4 letters: ef, el, em, me, mu, um.

+1 letter: muffled, muffler, muffles.

+2 letters: mufflers, unmuffle.

+3 letters: effluvium, mufflered, unmuffled, unmuffles.

+4 letters: effluviums, funnelform.

+5 letters: fulfillment.