| 单词 | muffled |
| 释义 | muffled (once / 934 pages) 1adj 2adj A muffled sound is quiet or muted. You might hear the muffled sound of your neighbors laughing through the wall of your apartment. If you don't want your brother to hear you cry after you finish a sad book, you might put your covers over your head, so all he'll hear is muffled sobs. And if your math class is giggling at your teacher's strange outfit, your hands over your mouths will produce muffled laughter. Muffled comes from muffle, "to cover," which probably stems from the Middle French mofler, "to stuff," and the Old French moufle, "muff or glove." WORD FAMILYmuffled: muffledly+/muffle: muffled, muffler, muffles, muffling/muffler: mufflers USAGE EXAMPLESUnless, of course, you close your mouth during the belch, in which case a more muffled sound will be heard. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) For now, it’s now, and the tick of the bedside clock is the muffled beat of a heart. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) Blurry, sustained tones that might be orchestral or electronic and quiet, shifting fields of static hover over muffled beats and subtly rhythmic washes of noise. New York Times(Nov 24, 2016) 1 adj being or made softer or less loud or clear 2muffled drums the muffled noises of the street Syn dull, muted, softened soft (of sound) relatively low in volume adj wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy children muffled almost to the eyebrows Syn covered overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form |
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