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MUFFLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or made softer or less loud or clear
Example:
muted trumpets
Synonyms:
dull; muffled; muted; softened
Classified under:
Similar:
soft ((of sound) relatively low in volume)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy
Example:
children muffled almost to the eyebrows
Classified under:
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb muffle
Context examples:
This he received without perturbation, though he obeyed it by keeping his distance; but he remained interested in the other sounds—faint, muffled sobbings and slubberings.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
At the doorway of the Howe Street flats a man, muffled in a cravat and greatcoat, was leaning against the railing.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Be that as it might, I seemed to see that woman’s figure still clutching at her treasure trove and flying wildly up the winding stair, with her ears ringing perhaps with the muffled screams from behind her and with the drumming of frenzied hands against the slab of stone which was choking her faithless lover’s life out.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"They do sometimes," said a muffled voice from the post.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Larsen,” I heard a muffled voice from within the mass.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I know it, for now and then I hear a far-away muffled sound as of mattock and spade, and, whatever it is, it must be the end of some ruthless villainy.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Floating on with closed eyes and muffled ears, you neither see the rocks bristling not far off in the bed of the flood, nor hear the breakers boil at their base.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A few minutes later he was disturbed by a gentle creaking of his own door, as though some one were pushing cautiously against it, and immediately afterwards he heard the soft thud of cautious footsteps upon the stair which led to the room above, followed by a confused noise and a muffled groan.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Before the words were well out of his mouth, he was whisked away somehow, and in his place appeared a tall man, muffled up to the eyes, leaning on the arm of another tall man, who tried to say something and couldn't.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I listened for a while to the behaviour of the Ghost, to the pounding of the seas and the muffled roar of the wind on deck, and then turned over on my side and slept peacefully until morning.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
