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Deaf-mute   /dɛf-mjut/   Listen
Deaf-mute

adjective
1.
Lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak.  Synonym: deaf-and-dumb.



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"Deaf-mute" Quotes from Famous Books



... treasure, he went all over the grounds, looking at the house now and again, but with much caution; the old couple treated him with evident distrust. But his attention was soon attracted by the little English deaf-mute, in whom his discernment, though young as yet, enabled him to recognize a girl of African, or at least of Sicilian, origin. The child had the golden-brown color of a Havana cigar, eyes of fire, Armenian ...
— Albert Savarus • Honore de Balzac

... cavalcade consisted of a Montenegrin soldier for guide, a Montenegrin student, and the horse-boy, necessary to lead the horses when, as was the case for a large part of the way, we could not ride them; and halfway down to Rieka we were overtaken by a deaf-mute porter, sent as a kind afterthought by the Prince, with a samovar and a provision of tea, sugar, etc., in view of the dearth of comforts beyond. I carried an order for shelter and such fare as was obtainable at Rieka, in the ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman



Words linked to "Deaf-mute" :   deaf, deaf-muteness, dummy, deaf person, deaf-and-dumb, mute, silent person



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