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Meaning of mute

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mute
      adj 1: 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
             [syn: {mute}, {tongueless}, {unspoken}, {wordless}]
      2: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: {dumb},
         {mute}, {silent}]
      n 1: a deaf person who is unable to speak [syn: {mute}, {deaf-
           mute}, {deaf-and-dumb person}]
      2: a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
      v 1: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn:
           {muffle}, {mute}, {dull}, {damp}, {dampen}, {tone down}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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