muffling
Quieting with cover
Muffling is the act of deadening or suppressing sound.
You muffle something by wrapping, covering, or enclosing it: the muffling effect of fresh snow, She spoke through the muffling layers of her scarf.
The word extends to any dampening or softening: the muffling of dissent, muffling his emotions.
Reducing or wetting slightly
- deadeningLessening intensity or sensitivity
- absorbingHolding attention completely
- insulatingPreventing heat or electricity passage
- cushioningSoftening force or fall
buffering · attenuating · padding · acoustic · soundproofing · noise-canceling · baffling · softening
Becoming less firm
- dullingRemoving keenness or luster
- mutingSuppressing sound output
- subduingBringing under control
- dimmingDecreasing in brightness
lessening · fading · lowering · tempering · hushed · faint · indistinct · distant
Reflex throat constriction
- hushingQuieting or water-mining
- shushingUrging silence vocally
- quietingMaking something still
- suppressingForcibly restraining or inhibiting
censoring · quelling · subduing · repressing · squelching · clamping · restraining · inhibiting
Outer covering material
- bundlingGrouping items as one
- swaddlingWrapping babies snugly
- swathingWrapping in strips
- envelopingSurrounding on all sides
shrouding · blanketing · cocooning · encasing · veiling · cloaking · draping · layering
Concealing by covering
- concealingKeeping something secret
- hidingStaying out of sight
- disguisingConcealing by altered appearance
- camouflagingConcealing by blending in
screening · clouding · blurring · distorting · garbling · unclear · unintelligible · incomprehensible
dampening
Reducing or wetting slightly
- deadeningLessening intensity or sensitivity
- absorbingHolding attention completely
- insulatingPreventing heat or electricity passage
cushioning · buffering · attenuating · padding · acoustic · soundproofing · noise-canceling · baffling · softening · reducing
softening
Becoming less firm
dimming · lessening · fading · lowering · tempering · hushed · faint · indistinct · distant · whispered
gagging
Reflex throat constriction
suppressing · censoring · quelling · subduing · repressing · squelching · clamping · restraining · inhibiting · choking
wrapping
Outer covering material
enveloping · shrouding · blanketing · cocooning · encasing · veiling · cloaking · draping · layering · scarves
masking
Concealing by covering
- concealingKeeping something secret
- hidingStaying out of sight
- disguisingConcealing by altered appearance
camouflaging · screening · clouding · blurring · distorting · garbling · unclear · unintelligible · incomprehensible · muddled
- quietinghushing, quieting, turning down, noise canceling, soundproofing
- drowning outmasking, muting, overpowering, overwhelming, outshout
- drummingsnare drum, drum roll, drumroll, beat, drumsticks
- noise controlnoise control, noise reduction, noise abatement, soundproofing, sound insulation
- suppressionrepression, inhibition, restraint, muzzling, quashing
- silencingmuting, hushing, shushing, quieting, gagging
mufflingamplifying
Increasing strength or intensity
boosting · magnifying · loudening · turning up · intensifying
mufflingclarifying
Making something understandable
sharpening · crisping · articulating · enhancing · brightening
mufflingbroadcasting
Mass signal transmission
proclaiming · announcing · trumpeting · voicing · shouting
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