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Words related to mute

Related / Similar Words: deaf-mute, deaf-and-dumb person, muffle, dull, damp, dampen, tone down, dumb, silent, tongueless, unspoken, wordless

Definition:

a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument;

a deaf person who is unable to speak;

deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping;

unable to speak because of hereditary deafness;

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;

lacking power of speech;

Hyponyms: sourdine, sordino, dummy, silent person

Derivational Morphology: muffle, dull, damp, dampen, tone down, damper, muffler, silencer

Language Translations:
Bulgarian: ням		Dutch: stom
Finnish: mykkä		German: stumm
Hungarian: néma		Kurdish: lal
Russian: немой		Slovene: nem
Spanish: mudo		Swedish: stum

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