Meanings
plural mufflers
- Something or someone that muffles.
- USautomotiveA part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
Holonym: exhaust system
Synonyms: silencer
- A type of scarf.
The newcomer took off his cap and his big woollen muffler. His nose was pointed and red.
1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC1 more example
He was wearing a maroon cashmere muffler which had hiked up on his neck, giving him next to no protection against the cold. Abruptly, and rather absently, he took his right hand out of his coat pocket and started to adjust the muffler, but before it was adjusted, he changed his mind […]
1955, J. D. Salinger, “Franny”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1991, →ISBN, page 4 - World War IrareslanggovernmentA gas mask.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
nounAn accessory for a firearm that lessens the noise at the muzzle.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
nouna device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian заглуши́тел
- заглуши́тел (zaglušítel)part of exhaust pipe
Catalan silenciador
- silenciadorpart of exhaust pipe
Chinese Mandarin 消音器
- 消音器 (xiāoyīnqì)part of exhaust pipe
Dutch knalpot, demper
- knalpotpart of exhaust pipe
- demperpart of exhaust pipe
- knalpijppart of exhaust pipe
Finnish äänenvaimennin
- äänenvaimenninpart of exhaust pipe
French pot d'échappement, silencieux d'échappement
- pot d'échappementpart of exhaust pipe
- silencieux d'échappementpart of exhaust pipe
German Schalldämpfer
- Schalldämpferpart of exhaust pipe
Hungarian hangtompító
- hangtompítópart of exhaust pipe
Indonesian knalpot
- knalpotpart of exhaust pipe
Irish ciúnadóir
- ciúnadóirpart of exhaust pipe
Italian smorzatore, silenziatore
- smorzatorepart of exhaust pipe
- silenziatorepart of exhaust pipe
- marmittapart of exhaust pipe
Japanese マフラー, 消音器
- マフラー (mafurā)part of exhaust pipe
- 消音器 (shōonki)part of exhaust pipe
Korean 머플러, 소음기
- 머플러 (meopeulleo)part of exhaust pipe
- 소음기 (so'eumgi)part of exhaust pipe
Latvian trokšņa slāpētājs
- trokšņa slāpētājspart of exhaust pipe
Lithuanian duslintuvas
- duslintuvaspart of exhaust pipe
Malay ekzos
- ekzospart of exhaust pipe
Norwegian Bokmål lyddemper, lydpotte
- lyddemperpart of exhaust pipe
- lydpottepart of exhaust pipe
- eksospottepart of exhaust pipe
Polish tłumik wydechowy
- tłumik wydechowypart of exhaust pipe
Portuguese silencioso, silenciador
- silenciosopart of exhaust pipe
- silenciadorpart of exhaust pipe
Romanian tobă de eșapament
- tobă de eșapamentpart of exhaust pipe
Russian глуши́тель
- глуши́тель (glušítelʹ)part of exhaust pipe
Spanish silenciador, silencioso
- silenciadorpart of exhaust pipe
- silenciosopart of exhaust pipe
- mufflerpart of exhaust pipe
- móflerpart of exhaust pipe
- moflepart of exhaust pipe
- muflepart of exhaust pipe
- muflapart of exhaust pipe
Swedish ljuddämpare
- ljuddämparepart of exhaust pipe
Turkish susturucu
- susturucupart of exhaust pipe
Ukrainian глушни́к
- глушни́к (hlušnýk)part of exhaust pipe
Welsh distewydd
- distewyddpart of exhaust pipe
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with muffler
All rhymes →Cite this entry
muffler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muffler
“muffler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muffler. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “muffler,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muffler.
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