muteadjective
uk/mjuːt/us/mjuːt/silent or not speaking:
The president has remained mute about plans to curtail the number of immigrants.
I gazed at her in mute admiration.
old-fashioned offensive unable to speak:
a mute child
mutenoun [ C ]
uk/mjuːt/us/mjuːt/music a device for changing the sound of a musical instrument, usually making it quieter:
He was playing his trumpet with a mute.
also mute button a button on an electronic device that makes it silent:
I pressed the mute on my phone so she couldn't hear the people talking in the background.
He was watching TV with the mute button on.
old-fashioned offensive a person who is not able to speak
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Musical instruments
- accordion
- alphorn
- alto
- alto recorder
- bagpipes
- dulcimer
- English horn
- euphonium
- fingerboard
- flugelhorn
- pick
- pitched
- plectrum
- reed
- reed instrument
- viol
- viola
- violin
- violoncello
- vuvuzela
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muteverb [ T ]
uk/mjuːt/us/mjuːt/If you mute a noise, you do something to make it less loud:
Heavy curtains muted the noise of the traffic.
music If you mute a musical instrument, you attach a device to it that changes its sound, usually making it quieter:
The song features muted trumpets.
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Silence & quiet
- breath
- hear
- hush
- hushed
- keep it down idiom
- keep sth down
- muffle
- muffled
- muted
- noiseless
- pindrop silence
- quiet
- quieten
- quietly
- radio silence
- silence
- silent
- trail
- trail away/off
- you could have heard a pin drop idiom
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