Muffling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MUFFLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• MUFFLE, to dull the sound of
• wrap or cover for warmth
• cover or wrap up (a source of sound) to reduce its loudness
• make (a sound) quieter or less distinct
NOUN:
• a receptacle in a furnace or kiln in which things can be heated without contact with combustion products
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to wrap with something to deaden sound

Words related to MUFFLING

muffle14 muffled16 muffles15

Words that contain MUFFLING

bemuffling21 unmuffling19

How to use MUFFLING in a sentence

• The disappointed people for the most part, however, restrained their wrath, and contented themselves with closing their shops and muffling their church bells.
• All the mystery that awaits us looks out through the eye-slits in the grave-clothes muffling her.
• The clouds had descended, muffling the sounds of the city beyond.
• Then he travelled through Sweden, went into the house of the smith, and posted himself near the threshold muffling his face in a cap to avoid discovery.
• Whereat he paused abruptly in the middle of the course, and muffling up his face, fell prostrate on the couch.
• The two were working quietly, and outside a soft fall of snow was muffling the noise of the city.
• Then he turned and went away, noiselessly as he had come, the thick-piled carpet of the anteroom muffling his footfalls.
• The gigantic silence of the night lay close over everything, like a muffling Titanic palm.
• CHAPTER 20 The day was very hot, and the silence of high noon lay close and thick between the steep slopes of the canyons like an invisible, muffling fluid.
• It was one thing to have picked up a little casual Arabic, and another, and horribly different, thing to comprehend the rapid outpourings behind that muffling veil.
• The door of the living-room was closed, muffling festal noises and permitting safe passage through the hall.
• Aubrey was caught! He had fully intended muffling his electric bell, and not being at home to visitors.
• Man from the very beginning of his race on earth has been thickly encompassed by mysteries, hung around by the muffling curtains of ignorance and superstition.
• Had she been listening it would have been hard to discern, for the feet were moccasin shod, falling noiseless on the muffling grass.
• Then we had fallen down between the woods, every step muffling the sounds.
• It was freezing hard and threatening snow, so he flung a fold of his cloak round his neck, muffling his ears.
• They groped for human understanding, and suddenly that clammy, discouraged feeling spread its muffling wall between them.
• His first impulse was to bury the box under a muffling pile of bedding and send a bullet or two through the lock.
• With his other he beat off the muffling blanket, and dragged her away from the door.
• Then the spade struck something which sent back a dull metallic sound through the muffling sand.
• Her utter unconsciousness, the delicate hand and arm lying over the edge of the sofa, and the gleam of her white forehead under its muffling cloud of hair, moved him strangely.
• Snow in Japan, snow in April, snow upon the cherry trees, what hospitality was this? The snow fell all day, muffling the silent city.
• After he had gone off to sleep, I took off my boots, in order to put them on under my stockings, for the greater quiet which that muffling gives to the tread.
• No effort pierced the muffling substance which rolled thickly against the lungs.
• They set to work with hearty goodwill, muffling their oars, and preparing for their noiseless advance into the harbour.
• Now the mouth of the harbour was reached, and the little fleet gathered itself more compactly together, and the muffling of the oars was carefully looked to.
• He knew that they could see only a broad back in front of them and the muffling coat and cap.

Similar words containing MUFFL without suffix ing

muffle14 muffled16 muffler15 muffles15 bemuffle18 mufflers16 unmuffle16 bemuffled20 bemuffles19 mufflered18 unmuffled18 unmuffles17 bemuffling21 unmuffling19

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