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.
Suppression of the free media, muzzling of the opposition and cheating during the referendum itself meant that this fearful outcome was inevitable.
It is not possible to overstate the dangers of muzzling the press.
She appeared to suggest that muzzling would be an alternative to a dog registration scheme.
It is no good merely muzzling those authorities while they are under the control of those kinds of people.
The provisions relating to muzzling and leashing will come into force on enactment.
Dangerous dogs can be subject to muzzling, and individual animals subjected to restriction orders.
Those consequences would involve the muzzling of dogs and prohibition upon letting cats out at night.
Secondly, we should really have the courage, with this report, to take a stand against the muzzling laws.
