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mute

 
Adjective mute has 3 senses
  1. mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless - expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
    Antonym: articulate (indirect, via inarticulate)
  2. mute, tongueless - lacking power of speech
    Antonym: speaking (indirect, via nonspeaking)
  3. dumb, mute, silent - unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
    Antonym: articulate (indirect, via inarticulate)
Noun mute has 2 senses
  1. mute, deaf-mute, deaf-and-dumb person - a deaf person who is unable to speak
    --1 is a kind of deaf person
    --1 has particulars: dummy, silent person
  2. mute - a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
    --2 is a kind of
    acoustic device
    --2 has particulars: sourdine, sordino
    Derived form: verb mute1
Verb mute has 1 sense
  1. muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down - deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
    --1 is one way to soften
    Derived form: noun mute2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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