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Muffle

🔄 Synonyms of "Muffle"

8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
dullverb	Boring; not exciting or interesting.
stifleverb	(transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
mutenoun	Not having the power of speech; dumb.
dampverb	In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
smotherverb	(transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
tone downverb	(ambitransitive) To relax; to make quieter or less obtrusive; to make milder.
dampenverb	(transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
deadenverb	(transitive) To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Muffle"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
deadenverb	(transitive) To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
tone downverb	(ambitransitive) To relax; to make quieter or less obtrusive; to make milder.
dullverb	Boring; not exciting or interesting.
mutenoun	Not having the power of speech; dumb.
stifleverb	(transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
smotherverb	(transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
dampenverb	(transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
dampverb	In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
repressverb	(transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
suppressverb	To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
quellverb	(transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
squelchverb	(intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
chokeverb	(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
suffocateverb	(ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
strangleverb	(transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
crushverb	A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
nipnoun	To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
muternoun	Something that mutes sound.
muzzlernoun	One who or that which muzzles.
mufflernoun	(US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.