Found 4 items, similar to Muffle.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: muffle
meredam
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: muffle
membekap, meredam, meredamkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: muffle
muffle
n : a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low
temperature
muffle
v 1: conceal or hide;
“smother a yawn”;
“muffle one's anger”;
“strangle a yawn” [syn:
smother,
stifle,
strangle,
repress]
2: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn:
mute,
dull,
damp,
dampen,
tone down]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Muffle
Muffle
\Muf"fle\ (m[u^]f"f'l), n.
The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp.
of ruminants.
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Muffle
\Muf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Muffled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Muffling.] [Cf. F. moufle a mitten, LL. muffula, OD. moffel
a muff. See
Muff.]
1. 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. --South.
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The face lies muffled up within the garment.
--Addison.
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He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. --Dryden.
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Muffled up in darkness and superstition.
--Arbuthnot.
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2. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound
about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
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3. To wrap or fit 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; to muffle the
exhaust of a motor vehicle.
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Muffle
\Muf"fle\, v. i. [Cf. F. maffle, mumble, D. moffelen.]
To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
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Muffle
\Muf"fle\, n. [F. moufle, prop., a mitten, from the
resemblance in shape. See
Muffle, v. t.,
Muff.]
1. Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is
muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
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2. (Metal.) 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.
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3. (Ceramics) 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.
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4. A pulley block containing several sheaves. --Knight.
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