MUFFLE vs SMOTHER: NOUN
- A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
- Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
- A pulley block containing several sheaves.
- 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.
- 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.
- Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
- The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.
- The tumid and naked part of the upper lip and nose of ruminants and rodents.
- A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)
- A kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
- Stifling smoke; thick dust.
- A state of suppression.
- That which smothers or causes a sensation of smothering, as smoke, fog, the foam of the sea, a confused multitude of things.
- An aphid.
- The act of smothering a kick (see above).
- Something, such as a dense cloud of smoke or dust, that smothers or tends to smother.
- That which smothers or appears to smother, in any sense.
- Smoldering; slow combustion.
- A confused multitude of things
- A stifling cloud of smoke
- The state of being stifled; suppression.
- Confusion; excess with disorder: as, a perfect smother of letters and papers.
MUFFLE vs SMOTHER: VERB
- Conceal or hide
- To wrap up (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection.
- To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.
- To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
- Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- Deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- Envelop completely
- Conceal or hide
- Form an impenetrable cover over
MUFFLE vs SMOTHER: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
- To be extinguished.
- To suffocate.
- To be surfeited with an emotion.
- To lavish a surfeit of a given emotion on (someone).
- To cover thickly.
- To suffocate (another).
- To be concealed or suppressed.
- To conceal, suppress, or hide.
- To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
- To be suffocated or stifled.
MUFFLE vs SMOTHER: TRANSITIVE VERB
- 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 or fit with something that dulls or deadens the sound of.
- To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate.
- Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal.
- To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like.
MUFFLE vs SMOTHER: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Suppress in order to conceal or hide
- Synonyms Muzzle, etc. See gag.
- To restrain from speaking by wrapping up the head; put to silence.
- To envelop more or less completely in something that deadens sound: used especially of bells, drums, and oars. See muffled.
- Figuratively, to wrap up or cover; conceal; involve.
- To blindfold.
- To infold or wrap up, especially in some cloth or woven fabric, so as to conceal from view or protect from the weather; wrap up or cover close, particularly the neck and face; envelop or inwrap in some covering.
- To mumble; mutter; speak indistinctly.
- To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of.
- To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air: as, to smother a fire with ashes.
- Hence, figuratively and generally, to reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle; cover up; conceal; hide: as, the committee's report was smothered.
- In cookery, to cook in a close dish: as, beefsteak smothered with onions.
- To daub or smear.
- Synonyms Smother, Choke, Strangle, Throttle, Stifle, Suffocate. To smother, in the stricter sense, is to put to death by preventing air from entering the nose or mouth. To choke is to imperil or destroy life by stoppage, external or internal, in the windpipe. To strangle is to put to death by compression of the windpipe. Throttle is the same as strangle, except that it is often used for partial or attempted strangling, and that it suggests its derivation. Suffocate and stifle are essentially the same, except that stifle is the stronger: they mean to kill by impeding respiration.
- To be suffocated.
- To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust. close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- Of a fire, to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- Figuratively, to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- Suppress in order to conceal or hide
MUFFLE vs SMOTHER: RELATED WORDS
- Repress, Choke, Strangle, Quell, Suffocate, Suppress, Squelch, Tone down, Dull, Damp, Mute, Smother, Dampen, Stifle, Deaden
- Bury, Crush, Suppress, Strangle, Thwart, Clutter, Put out, Jumble, Welter, Muddle, Surround, Muffle, Asphyxiate, Stifle, Suffocate
MUFFLE vs SMOTHER: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Nip, Crush, Choke, Strangle, Quell, Suppress, Squelch, Tone down, Dull, Damp, Mute, Smother, Dampen, Stifle, Deaden
- Kill, Choke, Bury, Crush, Suppress, Strangle, Thwart, Clutter, Put out, Jumble, Muddle, Surround, Muffle, Asphyxiate, Stifle
MUFFLE vs SMOTHER: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Each piece has leg boots that glide smoothly and muffle noise.
- Cob walls also muffle sound, making a quiet indoor space.
- The bike has a distinct carbon fiber style muffle with.
- She bit her lips trying to muffle a whimper.
- Allow me to muffle them with a quick video.
- Environmental Data Sheet Here are the brochures of muffle.
- Calls fade out and sometimes go to computerized muffle.
- Using nozzle equipment can also help muffle sound.
- Charlie Brown whose voice is a background muffle.
- Muffle Furnace A muffle furnace is capable of heating substances to extremely high temperatures.
- Gotta smother these flames with a bigger dumpster fire.
- When I tried to scream, he would smother me.
- The media are trying to smother and dismiss them.
- Anybody could get it, smother who ever you bring.
- In addition, the excess dirt can potentially smother oysters.
- Smother scale with horticultural oil or crush the insects.
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- It grows rapidly and can smother native vegetation.
- We thought it was going to smother us.
- However, a pillow canbe used to smother someone.
MUFFLE vs SMOTHER: QUESTIONS
- What is the probability of finding disenchantable items with the muffle effect?
- How can professor big-hair and professor beehive muffle the sound?
- Are resonator delete and muffle Delete bad for your car?
- Can a muffle furnace create a saturated inert gas environment?
- Which big Muff is similar to the Russian Big muffle?
- What is the maximum temperature of Thermo Scientific thermolyne small benchtop muffle furnace?
- Why did Cynthia try to muffle the sound of gunshots?
- What is the lowest muffle level that can be disenchanted?
- What is the highest temperature range available in muffle furnaces?
- What are the uses and principles of muffle furnace?
- Who was the first to smother the young girl in hugs?
- Do You Smother each other when you want something desperately?
- How many answers to the Smother or suppress (6) crossword clue?
- Was Adam's Mom Beverly really a smother on the Goldbergs?
- How many answers are there to the smother (6) crossword clue?
- Why does Sherlock Holmes smother his friend with a pillow?