Čo znamená muffle v angličtine a aká je definícia muffle?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť muffle výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

muffle Význam & definícia

0 to make a sound quieter and less clear:
- The house has double-glazed windows to muffle the noise of aircraft.
- The report concluded that business pressure on the government had muffled the impact of the legislation.
1 to wear thick warm clothes in order to keep warm:
- I was muffled up against the cold in a scarf and hat.
2 to make a sound quieter and less clear:
- Ted and I looked at each other with open mouths and muffled our laughs in our sleeves.

The voice of both authors is muffled under a blanket of amorphous words and phrases - structure, institution, configuration, social formation, pattern of behaviour.
However, the practice of notating the blues in a twelve-bar pattern muffled that cry.
Do we mind that he thus muffles its voice, literally circumscribes it?
Indeed, the expression of his authentic self is muffled by terminology over which he can have no mastery.
However, the care plan effectively muffled the voice of the patient.
The poetry, to my ear at least, is in danger of being muffled by the clang of rhetoric.
His was a figure of tremendous, repressed pain; his outward form muffled a raucous, screaming silence.
There is a whistle which lasts long and then a muffled explosion and the earth or house quakes.