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a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument a deaf person who is unable to speak expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and inarticulate lacking power of speech nonspeaking deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping unable to speak because of hereditary deafness inarticulate |
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