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Webster 1913 Edition


Unmuffle

Un-muf′fle

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
muffle
.]
1.
To take a covering from, as the face; to uncover.
2.
To remove the muffling of, as a drum.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unmuffle

UNMUF'FLE

, v.t.
1.
To take a covering from the face.
2.
To remove the muffling of a drum.

Definition 2024


unmuffle

unmuffle

English

Verb

unmuffle (third-person singular simple present unmuffles, present participle unmuffling, simple past and past participle unmuffled)

  1. (transitive) To take a covering from, as the face; to uncover.
  2. (transitive) To remove the muffling of, as a drum.
    • 2015, Henry Martin, ‎Keith Waters, Jazz: The First 100 Years, Enhanced Media Edition (page 62)
      But when returning from the graveyard, the band would unmuffle the drum and launch into up-tempo, jazzlike popular compositions.