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. Billy Sawyer:

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

2. Laith Khalef:

   That's a pretty big stimulus to those oil consumers, but we haven't really seen it yet, that's a theme that perhaps is not being played out in the market. Part of the reason the fuel price benefit is more muffled than in previous cycles, analysts say, is because consumers are paying down their own debt, uncertain about their future wage growth. Another reason is that there are more things to spend money on that are not tracked by traditional measures, such as online home-sharing service Airbnb or car ride service Uber.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Davide Capello:

   At some point I heard a muffled sound... I saw the cars in front of me going [ down ]. I felt the asphalt was gone and I found Davide Capello going down in my car... I thought that it would be the end, that I was going to die, then my car stopped, there wasn't a head-on crash, so it got embedded somewhere.