muffle has definitions from the field of food
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[ verb ] conceal, suppress, or hide

Synonyms

stifle smother

Examples

"smother a yawn"

Used in print

(Perry Miller "Theodore Parker: Apostasy within Liberalism"...)

Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival , that of the literal , factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels .

Related terms

suppress

2
[ verb ] quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible

Related terms

suppress hush smotherer

3
[ verb ] deaden (a sound or noise), esp. by wrapping

Related terms

soften silencer damper

4
[ noun ] (food) a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature

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kiln

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