| 单词 | muffle |
| 释义 | muffle (once / 721 pages) 1v 2n 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. WORD FAMILYmuffle: muffled, muffler, muffles, muffling+/muffled: muffledly/muffler: mufflers USAGE EXAMPLESHe drank prodigious amounts of alcohol to dim his heightened alertness and to muffle his sorrows. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Unless, of course, you close your mouth during the belch, in which case a more muffled sound will be heard. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) For now, it’s now, and the tick of the bedside clock is the muffled beat of a heart. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) 1 1v deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping Syn|Hyper damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down soften make (images or sounds) soft or softer 2v conceal or hide 2muffle one's anger Syn|Hyper repress, smother, stifle, strangle conquer, curb, inhibit, stamp down, subdue, suppress to put down by force or authority n a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature Hyper kiln a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks |
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