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muffle up

muffle up verb: to clothe; to wrap up in clothing.

Verb

muffle up (third-person singular simple present muffles up, present participle muffling up, simple past and past participle muffled up)

  1. (dated) to clothe; to wrap up in clothing
    • Excuse me, Madam, [for she looked hard at me,] that I am muffled up in this warm weather.1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC

Forms of muffle up

third-person singular presentmuffles up
present participlemuffling up
past participlemuffled up
pastmuffled up

Questions about muffle up

What does muffle up mean?
Muffle up means to clothe; to wrap up in clothing.
What part of speech is muffle up?
Muffle up is a verb.
What is the past tense of muffle up?
The past tense of muffle up is muffled up.

Words near muffle up in the dictionary

  1. muffish
  2. muffishness
  3. muffle
  4. muffle furnace
  5. muffle furnaces
  6. muffle up
  7. muffled
  8. muffled up
  9. muffledly
  10. muffledness
  11. mufflehead

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