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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



... cannot longer justify myself, To be a mute spectator of such ruin, As hourly threatens this respected family. [Aside.] To flatter, or conceal would ill become That friendship you have said you so esteem. My heart is open then, and can't acquit you. You've lost that fortitude ...
— The Female Gamester • Gorges Edmond Howard
... feelings of the most grateful homage;—a gentleman, whose abilities upon this occasion, as upon some former ones, happily for the glory of the age in which we live, are not entrusted merely to the perishable eloquence of the day, but will live to be the admiration of that hour when all of us are mute, and most of us forgotten;—that Honorable gentleman has told you that Prudence, the first of virtues, never can be used in the cause of vice. If, reluctant and diffident, I might take such a liberty, I should ...
— Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore
... subtle power of fascination invested this dark daughter of the earth. The liquid dark eyes lifted themselves in mute appeal to the great lady's face, and then the proudest woman in England opened her arms with a sudden impulse and took the outcast to ...
— The Baronet's Bride • May Agnes Fleming
... on the balcony over her, where he had been watching her approach in mute wonder. "Why, Miss Vervain," he called down, "what in the world ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... to, unless when I shall see no better company than ourselves. To be plain, I find difficulty in modelling my voice to a smoother tone than nature has given it. So, henceforth, my brave captain, I will be mute, unless when you give me a sign ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott


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