Synonyms for muffled
muf·fled

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1. dull, muffled, muted, softenedadjective

   being or made softer or less loud or clear

   "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets"

   Synonyms:
   thudding, dim, wearisome, quiet, dense, muted, boring, dumb, leaden, tedious, slow, sluggish, obtuse, deadening, subdued, tiresome, ho-hum, irksome, hushed, dull, softened

   Antonyms:
   bare, loud

2. muffledadjective

   wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy

   "children muffled almost to the eyebrows"

   Synonyms:
   muted, softened, dull

   Antonyms:
   bare, loud

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1. List of paraphrases for "muffled":

   deaf, smothered

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1. Charles De Gaulle:

   Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity cannot be cured but it can be muffled with duct-tape.

2. Alan Moore:

   It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

3. Billy Sawyer:

   I started yelling and Michelle yelled back, very faintly, and it was muffled -- 'Help me! Help me!'.

4. Leo C. Rosten:

   In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

5. Denis Diderot:

   The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.