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Word Meanings - MUMBLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Low; indistinct; inarticulate. -- Mum"bling*ly, adv.

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  • MUTTERER
    One who mutters.
  • STIFLED
    Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • INARTICULATELY
    In an inarticulate manner. Hammond.
  • INARTICULATE
    1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden. Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm. Without a hinge; -- said of an
  • MUMBLING
    Low; indistinct; inarticulate. -- Mum"bling*ly, adv.
  • INARTICULATED
    Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.
  • MUFFLE
    1. To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguishing folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up. South. The face lies muffled up within
  • MUTTERINGLY
    With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner.
  • MUMBLE
    1. To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with
  • STIFLE
    The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse. Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint;
  • SUPPRESSION
    Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain. (more info) 1. The act of suppressing,
  • INAUDIBLE
    Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent. -- In*au"di*ble*ness, n. -- In*au"di*bly, adv.
  • STIFLER
    See CAMOUFLET (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stifles.
  • SUPPRESSIVE
    Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
  • INARTICULATENESS
    The state or quality of being inarticulate.
  • MUMBLENEWS
    A talebearer.
  • SUPPRESSIBLE
    That may be suppressed.
  • SUPPRESS
    1. To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell. Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger. Sir J. Davies. 2. To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice;
  • MUTTER
    Etym: 1. To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complains or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl. Wizards that peep, and that mutter. Is. viii. 19. Meantime your filthy foreigner will
  • INSUPPRESSIBLE
    That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
  • INSUPPRESSIVE
    Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
  • BEMUFFLE
    To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.

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