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palm-mute

palm-mute is the alternative form of palm mute.

Meaning of palm mute

Verb

palm mute (third-person singular simple present palm mutes, present participle palm muting, simple past and past participle palm muted)

  1. (transitive) To soften the sound of the strings of a guitar (or other stringed instrument) by placing the palm of the strumming or picking hand lightly across the strings near the bridge while playing.

Forms of palm-mute

third-person singular presentpalm-mutes
present participlepalm-muting
past participlepalm-muted
pastpalm-muted

Questions about palm-mute

What is palm-mute the alternative form of?
Palm-mute is the alternative form of palm mute.

Words near palm-mute in the dictionary

  1. palm-kernels
  2. palm-leaf
  3. palm-leaf manuscript
  4. palm-leaf manuscripts
  5. palm-leaf snail
  6. palm-mute
  7. palm-oil
  8. palm-oils
  9. palm-tree
  10. palm-trees
  11. palm-wine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palm-mute (page history and authors); palm mute (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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