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mute: 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 wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe; lacking power of speech

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deaf mute collapse

play dumb collapse

keep quiet collapse: refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information; "Don't tell him any secrets--he cannot keep his mouth shut!"

nonliving collapse

silencer collapse: a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise; short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing

soundproofing collapse

noiseless collapse: making no sound; "th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time"- Shakespeare

tight lipped collapse

untalkative collapse

metronome collapse: clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music

insentient collapse: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"

reason to believe collapse

closemouthed collapse

tongue tied collapse

deafen collapse: make soundproof; "deafen a room"; make or render deaf; "a deafening noise"; be unbearably loud; "a deafening noise"

speechless collapse: unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"

soft pedal collapse: a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound

mum collapse: secrecy; "mum's the word"; failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent"

unhearing collapse

standby collapse: something that can be relied on when needed; ready for emergency use; "a standby generator"; "a standby crew"

laconic collapse

unspoken collapse

soulless collapse: lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling

play down collapse

dumbstruck collapse

wordless collapse

shut up collapse

taciturn collapse: habitually reserved and uncommunicative

stunned collapse

concise collapse: expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"

walk on collapse

dumbfounded collapse: as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"

diphthong collapse: a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another

phoneme collapse: (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

deaf collapse: people who have severe hearing impairments; "many of the deaf use sign language"; lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part

documentation collapse: documentary validation; "his documentation of the results was excellent"; "the strongest support for this view is the work of Jones"; confirmation that some fact or statement is true

curt collapse

surd collapse: a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords

silent collapse: having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility; "a silent dog whistle"; not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded"; marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still"

sonority collapse

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