English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of muffle

muffle

/verb/ ओढ़ना; लपेटना; धीमा करना;
/noun/दस्ताना; गुलूबंद; तन्दूर के भीतर की चद्दर; ढांकना; ओढना; ढकना; छिपाना;

Synonym enshroud; swathe; decelerate; glove; neckerchief; clothe; mantle; obfuscate; cover;

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English Dictionary:

1. Muffle

[n.]

- The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.

2. Muffle

[v. i.]

- To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

3. Muffle

[v. t.]

- To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up.
- To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
- To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.
- Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
- An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.
- A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.
- A pulley block containing several sheaves.