unmuffle
verbEtymology From un- + muffle.
1
To take a covering from, as the face; to uncover.
2
To remove the muffling of, as a drum.
- But when returning from the graveyard, the band would unmuffle the drum and launch into up-tempo, jazzlike popular compositions.2015, Henry Martin, Keith Waters, Jazz: The First 100 Years, Enhanced Media Edition, page 62:
3
To throw off one's concealments.