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muting

muting noun: the process by which something is muted or silenced. Also the present participle and gerund of mute.

Noun (1)

muting (plural mutings)

  1. The process by which something is muted or silenced.
    • Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.2012, Gary Taylor, Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, page 338

Noun (2)

muting (plural mutings)

  1. The dung of birds.
    • It is more surprising that instinct should lead small nesting birds to remove their broken eggs and the early mutings, […]a. 1883, Charles Darwin, “Appendix”, in George John Romanes, Mental Evolution in Animals. […] With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct. By Charles Darwin, […], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., […]...

Also used as

muting is also the present participle and gerund of mute.

Forms of muting

pluralmutings

Words formed from muting

Questions about muting

What does muting mean?
Muting means the process by which something is muted or silenced.
What part of speech is muting?
Muting is a noun.
What is the plural of muting?
The plural of muting is mutings.

Words near muting in the dictionary

  1. mutineering
  2. mutineers
  3. mutineries
  4. mutinery
  5. mutines
  6. muting
  7. mutings
  8. mutinied
  9. mutinies
  10. mutining
  11. mutinize

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