mute
/mjut/ adj [not gradable]Definition
› (of a person) completely unable or unwilling to speak, or (of a place, object, or activity) silent: He stood mute before the judge. The decay of Dawson City bore mute testimony to the end of the gold rush era.
(Definition of mute adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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