- silent
- speechless
- aphasic
- muffled
- mum
- quiet
- silenced
- tongue-tied
- aphasiac
- aphonic
- tongueless
- unexpressed
- unpronounced
- unsounded
- unspeaking
- unspoken
- voiceless
- wordless
- dampen
- soften
- subdue
- benumb
- deaden
- drown
- gag
- hush
- lower
- moderate
- muzzle
- reduce
- silence
- soft pedal
- bottle up
- cork up
- decrease the volume
- keep it down
- pipe down
- put damper on
- put the lid on
- turn down
On this page you’ll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mute, such as: silent, speechless, aphasic, muffled, mum, and quiet.
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There was a pause, during which Blanche went through a little mute exhibition of amazement and pleasure.
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Her face wore a look of distress, almost of alarm; she kept her place, but her eyes gave Bernard a mute welcome.
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WORDS RELATED TO MUTE
- dumb
- inarticulate
- mute
- silent
- speechless
- unarticulate
- extra
- mute
- spear-carrier
- supernumerary
- supporting actor
- supporting actress
- supporting player
- allay
- check
- chill
- cloud
- cool
- curb
- dash
- deaden
- deject
- depress
- diminish
- discourage
- dismay
- dispirit
- dull
- humble
- inhibit
- moderate
- muffle
- mute
- restrain
- stifle
- KO
- abate
- alleviate
- anesthetize
- benumb
- blunt
- check
- chloroform
- consume
- cushion
- damp
- dampen
- depress
- deprive
- desensitize
- destroy
- devitalize
- dim
- dope
- drown
- dull
- etherize
- exhaust
- freeze
- frustrate
- gas
- hush
- impair
- incapacitate
- injure
- knock out
- lay out
- lessen
- mute
- numb
- paralyze
- put out of order
- put to sleep
- quieten
- reduce
- repress
- retard
- slow
- smother
- soften
- stifle
- stun
- stupefy
- suppress
- tire
- tone down
- unnerve
- weaken
- censor
- dummy up
- gag
- hold one’s tongue
- hush up
- mute
- muzzle
- put the lid on
- quash
- say nothing
- shut up
- sit on
- soft pedal
- squelch
- stifle
- suppress
- asking questions
- cross-examining
- examining
- gathering intelligence
- giving the third degree
- grilling
- interrogating
- interviewing
- investigating
- probing
- putting through the wringer
- quizzing
- working over
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wordless, not good with words
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wordless, unable to speak
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speechless, close-mouthed
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Pronunciation:
[ mjˈuːt], [ mjˈuːt], [ m_j_ˈuː_t]
Related words: unmute, tone switch, end phone call, call mute, mute phone, phone call mute
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adj.
• all (adjective)
- mute,
- tongueless,
- wordless.
• aphonic (adjective)
- most unarticulate,
- un articulate,
- un-articulate,
- more unarticulate,
- unarticulate.
• dumb (adjective)
- taciturn,
- at a loss for words,
- speechless,
- mum.
• hollow (adjective)
- more toneless,
- more vibrating,
- most muted,
- most vibrating,
- most rumbling,
- more echoing,
- more clangorous,
- most sounding,
- more rumbling,
- re-sounding,
- most toneless,
- more muted,
- most clangorous,
- most reverberant,
- ghostly,
- more sounding,
- most echoing,
- re sounding,
- more reverberant.
• inarticulate (adjective)
- unvocal.
• inaudible (adjective)
- more nonvocal,
- non-vocal,
- non vocal,
- more unhearable,
- un hearable,
- un-hearable,
- most unhearable,
- in audible,
- in-audible,
- most nonvocal.
• incoherent (adjective)
- incohesive.
• incommunicable (adjective)
- in-communicable,
- in communicable.
• incommunicative (adjective)
- in-communicative,
- in communicative.
• inobtrusive (adjective)
- un obtrusive,
- un-obtrusive,
- in-obtrusive,
- in obtrusive.
• muffled (adjective)
- more suppressed,
- most suppressed,
- more deadened,
- more strangled,
- most strangled,
- most stifled,
- more stifled,
- most deadened.
• mum (adjective)
- most zipped,
- un-sociable,
- more unspeaking,
- more zipped,
- re-served,
- un-speaking,
- most unspeaking,
- un sociable,
- re served,
- not forthcoming,
- un speaking.
• noiseless (adjective)
- most hushful,
- more hushful.
• non-resonant (adjective)
- flat,
- silenced,
- non-resonant,
- deadened,
- dead.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- inarticulate,
- silent,
- buttoned up,
- muffled,
- toneless,
- tongue-tied,
- reverberant,
- unspoken,
- clammed up,
- aphonic,
- dumb,
- clangorous,
- surd,
- hollow,
- voiceless,
- not talkativ,
- Nonvocal,
- hushful,
- unhearable,
- quiet,
- unspeaking,
- not talkative,
- cool as cucumber.
• quiet (adjective)
- noiseless,
- whist,
- Quieter,
- not saying boo,
- could hear a pin drop,
- Inobtrusive,
- quietest.
• silent (adjective)
- Husher,
- inaudible,
- Silentious,
- iced,
- tight-lipped,
- still,
- Inconversable,
- unheard,
- dummied up,
- Lulled,
- closed up,
- struck dumb,
- soundless,
- hushed.
• speechless (adjective)
- most amazed,
- most astounded,
- un flappable,
- more astounded,
- more amazed.
• taciturn (adjective)
- tightlipped,
- uncommunicable,
- unforthcoming,
- incommunicative,
- anti-social,
- Incommunicable,
- dried-up,
- unexpressive.
• tight-lipped (adjective)
- tight lipped.
• tongue-tied (adjective)
- most garbled,
- tongue tied,
- more garbled,
- tonguetied.
• unable to speak (adjective)
- unsounded,
- aphasiac,
- unpronounced,
- unexpressed,
- aphasic.
• uncommunicable (adjective)
- un-communicable,
- un communicable.
• unintelligible (adjective)
- incoherent.
• unspoken (adjective)
- Intimated,
- unstated,
- Invoiced.
• voiceless (adjective)
- surdest,
- surder.
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n.
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•
- bewildered,
- articulation,
- blast,
- baton,
- blast away,
- atmospherics,
- beat out,
- accompany,
- back,
- bang out,
- surprised,
- arrange.
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- aspirate,
- words,
- consonant,
- aspiration,
- closed syllable,
- close vowel,
- bilabial,
- affricate,
- alveolar,
- assonance.
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•
- bridge,
- hammer,
- fret,
- catgut,
- key,
- head,
- drumstick,
- bellows,
- bow,
- damper.
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•
- reduce,
- shrivel,
- subside.
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•
- block out,
- quieten,
- cut out.
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•
- quiescent,
- quiet as a mouse,
- you could hear a pin drop.
• bit player (noun)
- spearcarriers,
- supporting actresses,
- spear carriers,
- spearcarrier,
- supporting actors,
- super-numerary,
- spear-carriers,
- super numerary.
• damp (noun)
- damp.
• deaf-and-dumb person (noun)
- deaf-and-dumb person.
• deaf-mute (noun)
- deaf-mute.
• dull (noun)
- dull.
• mute (noun)
- nonspeaking,
- tone down,
- walk-on.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- spear-carrier,
- bit player,
- supporting actress,
- bit-player,
- supporting players,
- supporting actor,
- Supernumeraries,
- spear carrier,
- supporting player.
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v.
• dampen (verb)
- de pressed,
- dis-may,
- dis-mays,
- de press,
- dis-courage,
- dis may,
- re-strains,
- de-pressing,
- dis maying,
- dis mays,
- dis-mayed,
- re strains,
- de pressing,
- de presses,
- dis mayed,
- re-strain,
- dis-maying,
- de-presses,
- de-pressed,
- de-press,
- dis courage,
- dis courages,
- re-straining,
- dis-courages,
- re straining,
- re strain.
• deaden (verb)
- de-sensitized,
- be numbing,
- re presses,
- un nerves,
- de vitalizing,
- puts out order,
- de-vitalizes,
- de-vitalized,
- de-sensitizes,
- put out order,
- de-stroy,
- de sensitize,
- in capacitating,
- puts out of order,
- de sensitizes,
- de stroying,
- de-stroyed,
- be numbs,
- in capacitate,
- re press,
- un nerving,
- de stroy,
- de vitalizes,
- de-sensitize,
- re duce,
- de stroyed,
- re-pressing,
- puts sleep,
- un-nerving,
- re duces,
- in capacitated,
- be-numbing,
- in capacitates,
- in-capacitating,
- in-capacitates,
- un nerve,
- be-numb,
- be-numbed,
- re-presses,
- Etherized,
- koing,
- ko’ing,
- re-duce,
- lays out,
- de-aden,
- Etherizing,
- putting out order,
- de-adens,
- be numb,
- un-nerves,
- re-duces,
- de aden,
- de-sensitizing,
- de-stroying,
- un-nerve,
- de-vitalize,
- re pressing,
- de sensitized,
- be numbed,
- in-capacitate,
- ko’d,
- re pressed,
- de vitalized,
- de stroys,
- un nerved,
- etherizes,
- in-capacitated,
- de sensitizing,
- be-numbs,
- de adens,
- de vitalize,
- putting sleep,
- put sleep,
- de-vitalizing,
- KOD,
- putting out of order,
- de-stroys.
• debrief (verb)
- held tongue,
- puts the lid on,
- dummies up,
- de briefs,
- de-briefs,
- hold ones tongue,
- held one tongue,
- said nothing,
- sate on,
- de-briefing,
- sat on,
- says nothing,
- holding ones tongue,
- holding tongue,
- hold one tongue,
- holding one tongue,
- holds tongue,
- puts lid on,
- held ones tongue,
- softpedal,
- holding one’s tongue,
- putting the lid on,
- de briefing,
- de-brief,
- de briefed,
- held one’s tongue,
- de-briefed,
- dummying up,
- holds ones tongue,
- sits on,
- holds one’s tongue,
- holds one tongue,
- putting lid on,
- de brief.
• muffle (verb)
- de-crease,
- sub-due,
- de creases,
- sub dues,
- sitting down on,
- de-creasing,
- sate down on,
- de creased,
- sat down on,
- sub due,
- de crease,
- de-creases,
- sits down on,
- sub-dues,
- de creasing,
- de-creased.
• muffle, tone down sound (verb)
- moderate,
- bottle up,
- turn down,
- pipe down,
- decrease the volume,
- gag,
- soften,
- lower,
- soft-pedal,
- muzzle,
- put damper on,
- keep it down,
- cork up,
- benumb.
• play down (verb)
- making little of,
- making light of,
- under-rated,
- made little of,
- under rated,
- under play,
- under plays,
- under-playing,
- makes light of,
- be-little,
- under rates,
- under-rating,
- be-littles,
- under playing,
- under-rate,
- under-rates,
- under-played,
- be littles,
- under-play,
- glossing over,
- under rate,
- makes little of,
- under played,
- de emphasize,
- under rating,
- glosses over,
- under-plays.
• shade (verb)
- clouded up,
- inumbrates,
- wert overcast,
- clouds over,
- art overcast,
- casts shadow,
- casting shadow,
- clouds up,
- wast overcast,
- umbraging,
- over shadowed,
- casts a shadow,
- cast shadow,
- umbraged,
- am overcast,
- over shadowing,
- over shadows,
- is overcast,
- being overcast,
- are overcast,
- over-shadowing,
- casting a shadow,
- was overcast,
- over shadow,
- inumbrated,
- clouding over,
- inumbrating,
- were overcast,
- over-shadows.
• silence (verb)
- shush,
- lull.
• tame (verb)
- brings heel,
- bringing to heel,
- sub jugate,
- breaks the spirit,
- domiciliates,
- brings to heel,
- brought heel,
- housetrained,
- bring heel,
- brake the spirit,
- house train,
- house-training,
- break spirit,
- broke the spirit,
- housetrains,
- house training,
- house-trains,
- brake spirit,
- house trains,
- breaks spirit,
- brought to heel,
- bringing heel,
- broke spirit,
- breaking spirit,
- house trained,
- breaking the spirit,
- housetraining.
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Other synonyms:
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- lessen,
- neuter,
- emasculate,
- chip away.
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•
- undercut,
- undermine,
- wane,
- sulk,
- erode.
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•
- dilute.
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•
- qualify,
- drown.
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•
- shake.
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•
- subdue.
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•
- temper.
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•
- cut.
• Other relevant words:
- tire,
- shade,
- burke,
- putting to sleep,
- dummy up,
- domiciliate,
- gentling,
- burked,
- hush,
- puts to sleep,
- anesthetizes,
- tame,
- Chloroformed,
- break the spirit,
- anesthetizing,
- put to sleep,
- gentled,
- dampen,
- Chloroforming,
- Disciplining,
- put lid on,
- saying nothing,
- deaden,
- sit down on,
- play down,
- muffle,
- housebreaking,
- anesthetized,
- Gassed,
- gassing,
- kos,
- soft pedal,
- hold tongue,
- housebroke,
- silence,
- housebreak,
- exhaust,
- put out of order,
- DAMPS,
- etherize,
- Quashed,
- house-trained,
- Damped,
- say nothing,
- housebroken,
- hold one’s tongue,
- gentles,
- housetrain,
- quash,
- disciplined,
- Dulling,
- sit on,
- Domiciliating,
- house-train,
- bring to heel,
- housebreaks,
- Burkes,
- put the lid on,
- Domiciliated,
- anesthetize,
- dulls,
- Damping,
- Burking,
- sitting on.
• play down
- underplayed,
- deemphasize,
- gloss over,
- underplay,
- make light of,
- made light of,
- underplaying,
- glossed over,
- underplays,
- make little of,
- be little.
• quieten
- quietened.
• shade
- shutter,
- cloud up,
- graying,
- Inumbrate,
- be overcast,
- grayed,
- GRAYS,
- shaded,
- shuttering,
- shuttered,
- clouded over,
- cast a shadow,
- clouding up,
- cloud over.
• silence
- kept down,
- choke off,
- debrief,
- cool it,
- closes up,
- keep down,
- overawe,
- hush one’s mouth,
- dumbing,
- decrease volume,
- quieted down,
- dry up,
- choked off,
- drying up,
- tongue-tie,
- tongue tie,
- dried up,
- choking off,
- strike dumb,
- overawed,
- quiet down,
- dumbed,
- clam up,
- clamming up,
- overawes,
- close up,
- closing up,
- Clamming,
- Clammed,
- Overawing,
- dumbs.
How to use «Mute» in context?
Most people use the word «mute» to refer to the action of turning off the sound on a device, like a phone. Others use it to describe a person who is unwilling to speak. The first meaning is more common, but the second is also used occasionally.
Mute is derived from the Old French word «muet,» which means «silent.» The first use of «mute» in English was in the 14th century. At that time, «mute» described someone who was refusing to speak out of politeness or because they were shy.
Paraphrases for Mute:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
muted.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
dummy, inoperative, Neutralizing.
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Proper noun, singular
silence.
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Noun, singular or mass
silence.
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Verb, base form
muzzle.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
dumb, speechless, tongue-tied, voiceless.
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Verb, base form
silence.
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Adjective
Homophones for Mute:
- mediety, mead, medea, matai, munda, minuet, maidhood, mahomet, mind, midday, matte, mammoth, mined, menotti, monnet, meat, mayday, month, meted out, maenad, minutia, memento, monument, mutt, muddy, mad, monied, manhunt, mountie, minuend, mayweed, matted, meet, mennonite, mood, Mete, meditate, manihot, mitt, momotidae, minuit, manat, mode, minded, mound, may day, manhood, moiety, midi, mutate, mandate, MDI, midway, md, monad, meth, madia, manned, motet, momot, monte, moot, muhammad, meade, matthew, maund, mid, manta, maundy, mediate, manda, moth, mod, monday, miniate, mud, moated, motto, moody, mentha, mote, mimidae, made, mate, matt, monod, moneyed, mantidae, man-made, manidae, metadata, math, mande, mt, maid, minute, mut, matey, mahound, meaty, muted, mat, maimed, mounted, mammutidae, myoid, mamet, mend, mot, med, Mothy, mouth, manatee, mantua, mahout, monody, mount, mite, Mutawa, muddied, Mohammad, minnewit, mediated, mohammed, method, manteidae, mantid, mammut, monet, middy, manumit, moment, montia, mit, mott, moat, Mahdi, mete out, meed, manet, meadow, myth, mint, manteodea, mated, maidu.
Hyponym for Mute:
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n.
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artifact
acoustic device.
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artifact
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adj aphasiac, aphasic, aphonic, dumb, mum, silent, speechless, unexpressed, unspeaking, unspoken, voiceless, wordless
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vb dampen, deaden, lower, moderate, muffle, soften, soft-pedal, subdue, tone down, turn down
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
mute
( mutes plural & 3rd person present) ( muting present participle) ( muted past tense & past participle )
1 adj Someone who is mute is silent for a particular reason and does not speak.
He was mute, distant, and indifferent…
Mute is also an adverb., adv ADV after v
He could watch her standing mute by the phone…
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mutely adv ADV with v
I crouched by him and grasped his hand, mutely offering what comfort I could.
2 adj Someone who is mute is unable to speak.
OLD-FASHIONED Marianna, the duke’s daughter, became mute after a shock.
3 verb If someone mutes something such as their feelings or their activities, they reduce the strength or intensity of them.
The corruption does not seem to have muted the country’s prolonged economic boom. V n
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muted adj
The threat contrasted starkly with his administration’s previous muted criticism…
4 verb If you mute a noise or sound, you lower its volume or make it less distinct.
They begin to mute their voices, not be as assertive… V n
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muted adj
`Yes,’ he muttered, his voice so muted I hardly heard his reply…
deaf-mute ( deaf-mutes plural ) A deaf-mute is someone who cannot hear or speak. This word could cause offence. n-count
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- mute
- немой
имя прилагательное:немой (dumb, mute, silent, speechless, inarticulate, voiceless)
безгласный (mute, voiceless, dumb)
безмолвный (silent, speechless, mute, voiceless, noiseless, whist)
молчаливый (silent, tacit, taciturn, mute, uncommunicative, dumb)
бессловесный (dumb, silent, mute, meek, humble)
имя существительное:
сурдинка (mute, sordine, sordino, muffler, sourdine)
статист (supernumerary, mute, figurant, extra, super, walk-on)
немой человек (mute)
взрывной согласный (explosive, mute, mute consonant)
глагол:
надевать сурдинку (mute)
надевать сурдину (mute)
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mute´ly — mute «myoot», adjective, noun, verb, mut|ed, mut|ing. –adj. 1. not making any sound; silent: »The little girl stood mute with embarrassment. Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story (Longfellow). Mute was the room mute the house (Charlotte… … Useful english dictionary
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Mute — Mute, a. [L. mutus; cf. Gr. my ein to shut, Skr. m[=u]ta bound, m[=u]ka dumb: cf. OE. muet, fr. F. muet, a dim. of OF. mu, L. mutus.] 1. Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent. [1913 Webster] All the heavenly choir stood mute, And silence was in … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Mute — may refer to: Muteness, a speech disorder in which a person lacks the ability to speak Mute, a silent letter in phonology Mute (film), an upcoming sequel to the movie Moon Mute (death customs) a professional mourner in Victorian and other… … Wikipedia
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mute — [myo͞ot] adj. [ME mewet < OFr muet < mu < L mutus, silent: for IE base see MOPE] 1. not speaking; voluntarily silent: often used figuratively 2. unable to speak 3. not spoken [a mute appeal] 4. SILENT (adj … English World dictionary
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MUTE — puede referirse a: MUTE (Informática): una red de intercambio de datos. Mute (gastronomía): sopa de maiz, en Colombia y Venezuela. Mute Records: sello discográfico. Mute Math: banda de rock alternativo. Esta página de desambiguación cataloga… … Wikipedia Español
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Mute — bezeichnet: eine Tauschbörsensoftware, siehe MUTE ein Independent Label, siehe Mute Records bei elektronischen Geräten die Stummschaltung ein Elektroautomobilprojekt der Technischen Universität München, siehe MUTE (Elektroauto) … Deutsch Wikipedia
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Mute — Mute, n. 1. One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause. Specifically: (a) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf mute. (b) A person… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Phrases with Mute
Things Mute often describes
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mute girl
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mute character
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mute boy
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mute woman
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mute button
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mute man
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mute child
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mute assistant
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mute characters
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mute hero
How Mute often is described
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deaf mute
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selective mute
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young mute
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masked mute
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titular mute
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homeless mute
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complete mute
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functional mute
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scary mute
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psychopathic mute
Mute is the first word in phrase
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mute city
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mute sister
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mute crimson
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mute swan
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mute blue
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mute witness
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mute revolution
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mute records
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mute status
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mute girls
Mute is the last word in phrase
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cute mute
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elective mute
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heroic mute
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gun mute
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ill-made mute
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cures mute
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null mute
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adult mute
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rookie mute
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power mute




