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mutes

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noun

  • A stopped consonant; a stop.
  • An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
  • A person who does not have the power of speech.
  • A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
  • An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
  • An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
  • A mute swan.

verb

  • To silence, to make quiet.
  • To turn off the sound of.

    "Please mute the music while I make a call."

noun

  • The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

verb

  • Of a bird: to defecate.

verb

  • To cast off; to moult.

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