muffle
muffle is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.
- transitive verb. To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up.
- transitive verb. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
- transitive verb. To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.
- intransitive verb. To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
- transitive verb. Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
- transitive verb. An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.
- transitive verb. A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.
- transitive verb. A pulley block containing several sheaves.
- noun. a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
- verb. conceal or hide
"smother a yawn"
"muffle one's anger"
- verb. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Synonyms
repress, smother, stifle, strangle, damp, dampen, dull, mute
Common word forms
muffled, muffler, muffles, muffling
Words from these letters
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