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muffle |
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muffle Verb [-fling, -fled] 1. to deaden (a sound or noise), esp. by wrapping the source of it in something: the sound was muffled by the double glazing 2. to wrap up in a scarf or coat for warmth 3. to censor or restrict: an attempt to muffle criticism [probably Old French moufle mitten] muffled adj
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muffle Translations (against cold) → abrigar (against cold) → emmitoufler (against cold) → einmummeln (against cold) → imbacuccare |
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So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks. That's a graveyard, and it's proper to muffle the drums and lower the flags as we go by, and we'd better take off our hats, too; it's more respectable, I think. The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind. |
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