muffled• Standing to one side, the sound is muffled and boomy.• His voice was muffled, "I'm in the bathroom. I'm stuck.''• The sound of breaking glass - muffled remonstrations.• We heard muffledshouts and screams from the bar below.• There was some clicking, and then the muffled sound of a human voice making its usualincomprehensiblenoises.• Celia got up and followed her into the kitchen, and there were muffled sounds of crying.• Water Gypsy had definitely moved at her moorings, and now there were muffled sounds of movement.• A muffledthump from below, somewhere at the foot of the stairs.• Somehow the dimness made my footsteps sound muffled, timid.• It began with muffled voices that meant nothing.• the muffledyells of children at play