muffle
verb (used with object)
to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound.
had muffled
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past perfectof muffle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When they spoke they growled in low voices, as though the fog that shrouded the world had muffled their words.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
"There!" she exclaimed, throwing off the heavy golf-cape in which she had muffled herself.
From The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
The day was breaking, however, before the last guests had muffled themselves up and the last hansom dashed away from the door.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Everything, in fact, was covered and blocked up with snow, and Londoners felt as if they had muffled drums in their ears.
From Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Another led a little tottering creature of two years, or thereabouts, which looked with wonder and fear, sometimes on the black dress in which they had muffled him, and sometimes on the scene around him.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
