0 present participle of muzzle
1 to put a muzzle on an animal:
Dangerous dogs should be muzzled.
2 to stop a person or organization from expressing independent opinions:
The new Secrecy Act will muzzle the media and the opposition.
Will he ensure that any exemptions are coupled with adequate safeguards, such as muzzling and proper insurance?
I deplore action from any quarter that might be construed as intimidating heads, deputy heads or teachers or as muzzling their freedom of expression.
I refer in particular to the muzzling requirement and the necessity for keeping a dog on a lead.
Those conditions involved registration, neutering, insurance, muzzling and so on.
I also welcome the end of muzzling for calves.
Muzzling is carried out so that calves cannot get any roughage at all into their systems.
There cannot be a better way of muzzling representatives of the public.
Secondly, we should really have the courage, with this report, to take a stand against the muzzling laws.
