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unmuffle

verb

Etymology

From un- + muffle.

  1. derived from *molfell✻ — “soft garment made of hide”
  2. derived from *fellą✻ — “skin, film, fleece”
  3. derived from *mawwō✻ — “sleeve”
  4. derived from *muffël✻ — “a muff, wrap, envelope”
  5. derived from muffula — “a muff”
  6. derived from enmoufler
  7. derived from amoufler
  8. inherited from muflen — “to muffle”
  9. prefixed as unmuffle — “un + muffle”

Definitions

  1. To take a covering from, as the face

    To take a covering from, as the face; to uncover.

  2. To remove the muffling of, as a drum.

    • But when returning from the graveyard, the band would unmuffle the drum and launch into up-tempo, jazzlike popular compositions.

  3. To throw off one's concealments.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA