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muffler

/muhf-ler/US // ˈmʌf lər //UK // (ˈmʌflə) //

消声器,消音器,消音机,消声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a scarf worn around one's neck for warmth.
    • : any of various devices for deadening sound, as the sound of escaping gases of an internal-combustion engine.
    • : anything used for muffling sound.
    • : Armor. a mittenlike glove worn with a mail hauberk.

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Examples

  • This will further muffle the noise coming out of your mufflers and ensure that private time stays private.

  • Drivers like to think they might go off-roading sometime, when what they really want is all-weather on-road security and the ability to occasionally navigate a rutted driveway to a cabin in the woods without tearing the muffler off their car.

  • The victim got off at 96th, carefully straightening his muffler inside his black overcoat.

  • First Lady (horrified at bright scarlet muffler for Navy, the creation of second lady).

  • It was Peter, Baron de Grost, who threw his muffler and broad-brimmed hat upon the table.

  • And so I will but take my chopins and my cloak, and put on my muffler, and cross the street to neighbour Ramsay's in an instant.

  • I should like to see her when she hath exchanged her mask and riding-beaver for her peaked hat and muffler.