Usually means: Reduces the intensity of sound.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. muffles: Merriam-Webster
  2. muffles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. muffles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Muffles, muffles: Wordnik
  5. muffles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. muffles: Wiktionary
  7. muffles: Dictionary.com
  8. muffles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. muffles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muffles: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muffles: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muffles: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (muffle)

noun:  Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
noun:  A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A boxing glove.
noun:  A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)
noun:  The bare end of the nose between the nostrils, especially in ruminants.
noun:  A machine with two pulleys to hoist load by spinning wheels, polyspast, block and tackle.
verb:  (transitive) To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up.
verb:  (transitive) To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.
verb:  (transitive) To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
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