bemuffled

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ muffle +‎ -ed.

Adjective

bemuffled (not comparable)

1. Wrapped with, or as if with, a muffler.
   • 1763, Laurence Sterne, The Case of Hezekiah and the Messengers (sermon)

     bemuffled with the externals of religion

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bemuffled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)