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Unmuffle

Unmuffle \Un*muf"fle\, v. 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.

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unmuffle

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To take a covering from, as the face; to uncover. 2 (context transitive English) To remove the muffling of, as a drum.

Usage examples of "unmuffle".

The car went forward nose-first into the crack and lodged on the pipe, unmuffled engine blatting stridently.

Selena adjusted their jumpsuits so that only their eyes were unmuffled by the warm cocoon of Rynlon ingenuity.

The boat chugged on, the racket of its unmuffled engines helping to clear a course through the harbor fog.

And to the deep-throated roar of an unmuffled exhaust, the heavy car leaped, like a spirited animal stung by whip and spur, and settled into a stride to which what had gone before was as a preliminary canter to the heartbreaking drive down to the home-stretch.

It was a roofless old Toyota LandCruiser with an unmuffled engine, and when she started it, it was so loud there was no way to pretend we might casually drive through Dar without being noticed.

The guests around them gasped as the notes poured out brighter now, unmuffled by clinging clothes.

The dark-lanthorn, now fairly unmuffled, presented to the gaze of the robbers nothing that could gratify their cupidity.

Arbor Collier still lay asleep in the guest bedroom, snoring with the sound and volume of an unmuffled lawnmower engine.

I was shuddering because not one of my pursuers, despite some hideous panting, grunting, and subdued barkings at odd intervals, was uttering an unmuffled or intelligible vocal sound.

With an ear-splitting roar of its unmuffled exhaust system, the battered yellow cab squealed to a stop in front of the restaurant.

As it gained speed, she held her breath, released the clutch and bit her lip until the unmuffled rotary engine began whining.