Synonyms:
mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless
Meaning: expressed without speech; "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
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone_down
Meaning: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Usage examples
She remained mute.
Never did she lisp it, And 't was not for me; She was mute from transport, I, from agony!
Ralph never said a word against him, but Osmond's sore, mute protest was none the less founded.
The door closed, and for several minutes the three children stood regarding each other, alarmed, mute.
"I do hope I'll be able to say something once in a while, and not sit like a mute," said Diana anxiously.
She stood, shrinkingly, before him, as if she were afraid to meet his eyes; but her passionate sorrow was quite hushed and mute.
The desolate waste straight through the heart of the city remained a mute witness to the most heroic and effective work of the whole calamity.
The old man, with an apologetic action of his head and hands, as not comprehending the master's meaning, addressed to him a look of mute inquiry.
Were all the village bells to be mute because Tribulation Wholesome and Deacon Ananias thought them profane? Was Christmas no longer to be a day of rejoicing?
These people do not know that Olda prophesied when the men were mute; that while Barach was atremble, Deborah saved Israel; that Judith and Esther delivered from supreme peril the children of God.