muffle – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to muffle
Participle: muffled
Gerund: muffling

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	muffle
we	Let's muffle
you	muffle

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

dampen

stifle, smother, quiet, mute, suppress, subdue, deaden

bundle

insulate, cover, wrap

Antonyms

to cause to become more lively and energetic

benumb, calm down, de-energize, deaden, diminish, hose down, relax, sedate, stifle, suppress, enliven

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1430, "to cover or wrap (something) to conceal or protect," perhaps from M.Fr. mofler "to stuff," from O.Fr. moufle "thick glove, muff" (cf. O.Fr. enmoufle "wrapped up"); see muff (n.). Meaning "wrap something up to deaden sound" first recorded 1761. Muffler as a kind of scarf is from 1535; as an automobile exhaust system silencer, it is attested from 1895.
2. From Middle English muflen (“to muffle”), aphetic alteration of Anglo-Norman amoufler, from Old French enmoufler (“to wrap up, muffle”), from moufle (“mitten”), from Medieval Latin muffula (“a muff”), of Germanic origin (—first recorded in the Capitulary of Aachen in 817 C.E.), from Frankish *muffël (“a muff, wrap, envelope”) from *mauwa (“sleeve, wrap”) (from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“sleeve”)) + *vël (“skin, hide”) (from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”). Alternate etymology traces the Medieval Latin word to Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molawēn (“to soften”), Middle High German molwic (“soft”), English mulch) + *fell (“hide, skin”). See: English 'mulch'.

Verbs referencing "muffle"

English camouflage.

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