0 to make a sound quieter and less clear -- 使（聲音）變微弱（或低沉）；消（聲）
1 to wear thick warm clothes in order to keep warm -- （為保暖而用厚衣物）圍裹，裹住；蒙住
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.
