0 past simple and past 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.
The cattle in the pasture are muzzled and cannot damage the trees; young trees are protected by a railing.
Closer to home too, it was muzzled by the perceived need to provide reassuring continuity to the domestic business community.
If coursing is done just to turn the hares and to score points, why are the greyhounds not muzzled?
In the case of this protocol it is truly a dog that is muzzled and cannot whimper, let alone bark.
It may have been the bookmakers who tried to have him muzzled.
The press is muzzled, human rights organisations are barred and opposition is driven abroad.
I for one am not prepared to be muzzled by comments of that sort.
Those people will be required to have their dogs on leads and muzzled.
