Deaf-mute meaning

dĕf'myo͝ot'
A person who can neither hear nor speak.
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Being deaf and unable to speak.
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A person who is deaf, esp. from birth, and therefore unable to speak: most deaf-mutes, having the necessary vocal organs, can learn to speak.
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Of or being a deaf-mute.
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A person who can neither hear nor speak.
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Being deaf and unable to speak.
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Alternative form of deaf-mute.
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Alternative form of deaf-mute.
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Unable to hear or speak.
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A person who is unable to hear or speak.
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Sentence Examples

  • The deaf mute was also concealed in the Temple.

  • A child was in fact delivered to her agents, but he was a deaf mute.

  • The state charitable institutions - insane asylum, deaf-mute and blind institutes - and the penitentiary, are at Little Rock.

  • PEREIRE [PEREIRA], GIACOBBO Rodriguez (1 715- 1780), one of the inventors of deaf-mute language, a member of a Spanish-Jewish family, was born at Estremadura, Spain, on the 11th of April 1715.

  • deaf-mute nymphomaniac with huge breasts who owns a liquor store and a boat.

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