mute lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
• 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
• lacking power of speech
• temporarily incapable of speaking "struck dumb" "speechless with shock"
• not made to sound "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'" "in French certain letters are often unsounded"
• a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
• a deaf person who is unable to speak
• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping