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Mute   /mjut/   Listen
Mute

adjective
1.
Expressed without speech.  Synonyms: tongueless, unspoken, wordless.  "A silent curse" , "Best grief is tongueless" , "The words stopped at her lips unsounded" , "Unspoken grief" , "Choking exasperation and wordless shame"
2.
Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness.  Synonyms: dumb, silent.
noun
1.
A deaf person who is unable to speak.  Synonyms: deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute.
2.
A device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument.
verb
1.
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.  Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, muffle, tone down.



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"Mute" Quotes from Famous Books



... arranged the saree, draping it well over his head to conceal his face. Then giving him a ghurra (water vessel) told him to pretend that he was going to fetch water from the river. Cheered by her courage, he caught her to his heart in a mute farewell, and her prayers ...
— Bengal Dacoits and Tigers • Maharanee Sunity Devee

... vibrations of a woman's heart. He is always, always the same, always good, always smiling, always kind, always perfect. Oh! how I sometimes have wished that he would roughly clasp me in his arms, that he would embrace me with those slow, sweet kisses which make two beings intermingle, which are like mute confidences! How I wished that he was self-abandoned and even weak, so that he should have need of me, of my ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant

... friendship he bore me with caresses. Indeed there seemed a hidden goodness in his heart, a nobleness that caused the current of his friendship to flow with much gentleness, and a singleness in his mute appeals to my approbation, that I could not help contrasting with the insincerity of those dogs who go about the world on two legs, and imagine themselves most ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"

... me don't want to fight," Mrs. Clark quickly replied with a touch of humor, and the first expression that the judge had seen upon the little girl's mute face appeared. A smile touched her lips, flickered and went out. She sat stiffly beside her aunt in the judge's great leather chair,—a pale, badly dressed little mouse of a girl, who did not ...
— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... mute: alone, untaught to fear, Tydides spoke—"The man you seek is here. Through yon black camps to bend my dangerous way, Some god within commands, and I obey. But let some other chosen warrior join, To raise my hopes, and second my design. By mutual ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer


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