Definition of Mute

Noun

• a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
  
• a deaf person who is unable to speak
  - deaf mute - deaf and dumb person

Verb

• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
  muffle dull damp dampen - tone down

Adjective

• unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
  dumb silent
• expressed without speech
  "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
  tongueless unspoken wordless

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