muffle
Other forms: muffled; muffling; muffles
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.
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deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
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conceal or hide
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a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperaturetype of:kilna furnace for firing, burning, or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
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