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Muffling Muffle Wrapping Muffled Scarf Sound Things Mʌfl

Front muffle
Pron ['mʌfl]
Back 【muffle】
v.围住;将……蒙起以使声音低沉
She muffled her throat in a warm scarf not to catch a cold.
她用一温暖的围巾围起脖子,以免感冒。
Vocab
muffledeaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

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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