Definitions for mute

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mute mute

Spelling: [myoot]

IPA: /myut/

Mute is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in mute (emtu).

Definitions for mute

noun

1. Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
2. an actor whose part is confined to dumb show.
3. Law. a person who stands mute when arraigned.
4. Also called sordino. a mechanical device of various shapes and materials for muffling the tone of a musical instrument.
5. Phonetics. a stop.
6. British Obsolete. a hired mourner at a funeral; a professional mourner.

adjective

1. silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
2. not emitting or having sound of any kind.
3. incapable of speech; dumb.
4. (of letters) silent; not pronounced.
5. Law. (of a person who has been arraigned) making no plea or giving an irrelevant response when arraigned, or refusing to stand trial (used chiefly in the phrase to stand mute).
6. Fox Hunting. (of a hound) hunting a line without giving tongue or cry.

verb (used with object)

1. to deaden or muffle the sound of.
2. to reduce the intensity of (a color) by the addition of another color.

Origin of mute

1325-75; Latin mūtus dumb; replacing Middle English muet Middle French, equivalent to Old French mu (Latin mūtus) + unexplained suffix -et; cf. -et

Examples for mute

Tom sat down, looking from one face to another, in mute surprise.

She could not be blind to the mute adoration of his gaze; nor could she resent it.

Kennedy proceeded on, having rendered Douglas mute as a result not of his position, but of his person.

A deaf person had heard, a mute had spoken, a consumptive had revived!

It was hard to stand still and mute, and bear every thing, without reply.

Should Courage give up her war profiteering and settle down to run an honest pub—even if it means abandoning her mute girl?

The same thing happens when her mute daughter, the sweet Kattrin, is shot as she tries to warn a hamlet of impending slaughter.

I presume most Republicans will be clever enough to mute impeachment talk before November.

It was the mute, obstinate, eternal protest, and it was expectation also.

The deaths of Lewis and Huxley were mute, private events, only reported in The Times three days later.