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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To muffle or wrap someone's head or face (normally with up). transitive

   "She was all mobled up at the window, her tawniness flat and dull in this snowlight, and I felt pity."

Example

More examples

"She was all mobled up at the window, her tawniness flat and dull in this snowlight, and I felt pity."

Etymology

Frequentative mob + -le.

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