muffleth

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up.
   • The face lies muffled up within the garment.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, (please specify the page)
2. (transitive) To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.
   • to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock
3. (transitive) To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
   • The singer's voice was muffled by the thick walls, yet Tyrion knew the verse.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 397
4. (dated, intransitive) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
5. (dated, transitive) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

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