muffle
muffled; muffling; muffles
To muffle is to quiet a sound, usually by wrapping it with something. If you try to speak with a scarf over your mouth, your voice will be muffled.
When a hitman puts a silencer on a gun, he's muffling the sound of gunshots, since muffling makes things quieter. Usually, muffling involves wrapping something around or putting something over a noisy thing. Muffling dampens, tones down, deadens, and dulls. Also, if you hold down your emotions and don't express them, you're muffling them. Muffling keeps things quiet.
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deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
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conceal or hide
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a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
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type of:
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kiln
a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
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kiln
Vocabulary lists containing muffle
To help her little sister prepare for middle school, Augusta recounts the many friendly, snobby, hilarious, and strange people she's encountered since starting sixth grade.
During the Great Depression, an eleven-year-old girl tackles challenges and finds adventure when she moves in with relatives in Key West, Florida.
When Lincoln begins attending a new school, he must play basketball against his old teammates.
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