Usually means: Reduce intensity or sound clarity.
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  1. muffle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. muffle: Merriam-Webster
  3. muffle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. muffle, muffle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. muffle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. muffle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Muffle, muffle: Wordnik
  8. muffle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. muffle: Wiktionary
  10. muffle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. muffle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. muffle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Muffle, muffle: Dictionary.com
  14. muffle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. muffle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Muffle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Muffle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. muffle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. muffle: Rhymezone
  20. muffle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. muffle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. muffle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. muffle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. muffle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. muffle: Legal dictionary

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  1. muffle: Encyclopedia

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  1. muffle: Idioms

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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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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