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muffled

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ˈmʌfl̩d//

Stifled or covered up; diminished by interference.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of mufflesimple past and past participle of muffle

adjective

  1. 1

    Stifled or covered up; diminished by interference.

    A muffled curse escaped my lips.

Forms

comparative
more muffled
superlative
most muffled
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).