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mute

• (s) 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
  unspoken, wordless, tongueless,
• (s) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness dumb, silent,

Nouns

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

Verbs

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

Synonyms

deaf-and-dumb person deaf-mute unspoken wordless tongueless damp tone down muffle dampen dull dumb silent

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