Muffle Definition

mŭfəl
muffled, muffles, muffling
verb
muffled, muffles, muffling
To wrap up in a shawl, blanket, cloak, etc. so as to hide, keep warm, or protect.
Webster's New World
To wrap or cover in order to deaden or prevent sound.
Webster's New World
To deaden (a sound), as by wrapping.
Webster's New World
To make vague or obscure.
American Heritage
To prevent the expression of; stifle.
Webster's New World
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noun
muffles
Something that muffles.
American Heritage
An oven in which pottery, etc. can be fired without being exposed directly to the flame.
Webster's New World
The fleshy bare part of the upper lip and nose of certain mammals, as ruminants or rabbits.
Webster's New World

A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)

Wiktionary
A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Muffle

Noun

Singular:
muffle
Plural:
muffles

Origin of Muffle

  • Middle English muflen "to muffle", aphetic alteration of Anglo-Norman amoufler, from Old French enmoufler (“to wrap up, muffle"), from moufle (“mitten"), from Medieval Latin muffula (“a muff"), of Germanic origin ("”first recorded in the Capitulary of Aachen in 817 CE), from Frankish *muffël "a muff, wrap, envelope" from *muff- "sleeve, wrap" (from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“sleeve")) + *vël "skin, hide" (from Proto-Germanic *fellÄ… (“skin, film, fleece"), from Proto-Indo-European *pel(e)(w)-, *plÄ“(w)- (“skin, hide")). Akin to Middle High German mouwe, mōwe (“sleeve") (German Muff "muff", Dutch mouw "sleeve"). Alternate etymology traces the Medieval Latin word to Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide") from *mol (“softened, forworn") (akin to Old High German molawÄ“n "to soften", Middle High German molwic "soft") + *fell (“hide, skin"). Akin to Old High German fel (“fell, skin, hide"), Old English fell (“fell, skin, hide"). More at mulch, fell, camouflage.

    From Wiktionary

  • French mufle perhaps blend of moufle chubby face (from Old French muff2) museau muzzle (from Old French musel muzzle)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English muflen possibly from Old French mofler to stuff from mofle glove muff2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Muffle Sentence Examples

  • Muffle furnaces are suitable for fine ores which are liable to decrepitate or sinter.

  • These burners, or modifications of them, have also been applied to muffle furnaces, which are convenient when only a few assays have to be made - the furnace being a mere clay shell and soon brought to a working temperature; but the fuel is too expensive to allow of their being used habitually or on a large scale.

  • The precipitate is collected in a filter-press, and then roasted in muffle furnaces with nitre, borax and sodium carbonate.

  • The process is effected either in heaps, stalls, shaft furnaces, reverberatory furnaces or muffle furnaces.

  • The dry method consists in an oxidizing roasting of the ores, and a subsequent chloridizing roasting with either common salt or Abraumsalz in reverberatory or muffle furnaces.

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