Difference between Muted and Muffled

MUTED vs MUFFLED: ADJECTIVE

Softened; rendered less loud or harsh; -- of sounds and instruments which produce sounds.
Same as quiet. Opposite of noisy.
Produced by or provided with a mute.
Mute or subdued; softened.
Muffled; indistinct.
Being or made softer or less loud or clear
In a softened tone

Of musical instruments, played with a mute: as, muted strings or muted horns. Also applied to the tones thus produced.

Dulled or deadened: applied to a sounding body or to the sound produced by it.
Wrapped up closely, especially about the face; concealed from view; also, blinded by or as by something wrapped about the face and covering the eyes.
Having feathered feet, such as are found in many breeds of domesticated pigeons: thus a black, self-muffled tumbler is a tumbler of uniform black color with the feet and lower part of the tarsus feathered.

Attenuated, Shaky, Mitigated, Discreet, Silent, Weak, Weaker, Lackluster, Soft, Hushed, Dull, Softened, Quiet, Muffled, Subdued

Off, Whitewashed, Strangled, Asphyxiated, Suffocated, Deaf, Smothered, Choked, Suppressed, Stifled, Covered, Soft, Softened, Dull, Muted

Attenuated, Shaky, Mitigated, Discreet, Silent, Weak, Weaker, Lackluster, Soft, Hushed, Dull, Softened, Quiet, Muffled, Subdued

Off, Whitewashed, Strangled, Asphyxiated, Suffocated, Deaf, Smothered, Choked, Suppressed, Stifled, Covered, Soft, Softened, Dull, Muted

Grim acceptance muted the joy in his face.
Check to see if the TV is muted.
The reaction from Western capitals was more muted.
Make sure the TV sound is not muted.
Muted colours appear duller when placed next to intense colours, and intense colours appear more vivid when next to a muted colour.
All the muted responses in the thread will be de after the migration iously muted email conversations to suddenly appear in their inboxes again.
When you joined a meeting with audio muted and then lost connection, when the app automatically reconnected, you were no longer muted.
But in a muted switching environment, very muted, we delivered the highest growth in our history this quarter.
When the conference is muted all participants excluding the host and guest speakers are muted.
If not muted the stream will be muted.

That could make the song sound muffled and dull.
Call clarity lacks in part to the muffled output.
Private in his space suit, as it sounds muffled.
She winced and muffled her gasp in the bed.
Muffled, yes, but he should be audible, dammit.
Very muffled and the guitars were too low.
MATT: You hear echoing, muffled in the distance.
Audio recorded fine but was quite heavily muffled.
The main symptom is muffled or dulled hearing.
Muffled by his high collared waistcoat, she let out a shrill, muffled scream of shame.