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Synonyms for muzzled

Grammar : Adj
Spell : muhz-uhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmʌz əl

Définition of muzzled

Origin :
  • late 14c., "device put over an animal's mouth to stop it from biting, eating, or rooting," from Old French musel "muzzle," also "snout, nose" (12c., Modern French museau), from muse "muzzle," from Gallo-Romance *musa "snout" (cf. Provençal mus, Old Spanish mus, Italian muso), of unknown origin, possibly related to Latin morsus "bite" (but OED finds "serious difficulties" with this). Meaning "projecting part of the head of an animal" is from early 15c. in English; sense of "open end of a firearm" first recorded 1560s.
  • adj silenced
Example sentences :
  • It would be well for the people if their advisers were muzzled too.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • Talk about Winston if you like, but, after all, he has only muzzled the German fleet.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 » by Various
  • You ought to be ashamed of myself, and you should be muzzled.
  • Extract from : « How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion » by George W. Peck
  • Instead, it sat on its haunches close to the mountaineer, and muzzled his hand.
  • Extract from : « Heart of the Blue Ridge » by Waldron Baily
  • I've to be tied to the stake at ten, chained and muzzled—a leetle-a dawg!
  • Extract from : « Rhoda Fleming, Complete » by George Meredith
  • I was in a hurry to get out of town, for my dogs were not muzzled.
  • Extract from : « Nobody's Boy » by Hector Malot
  • He had been muzzled, and muzzled, when all was said, by his paltry salary as an exciseman; alas!
  • Extract from : « Familiar Studies of Men and Books » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A lean boy is brought in, muzzled; he is followed by a ragged woman.
  • Extract from : « The Social Significance of the Modern Drama » by Emma Goldman
  • There they are muzzled and are not expected to attack people.
  • Extract from : « The Dogs of Boytown » by Walter A. Dyer
  • They were the uninteresting ones, because they were muzzled.
  • Extract from : « Amazing Grace » by Kate Trimble Sharber

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