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Meanings of
deaf-mute
in English
Portuguese
mudo
Catalan
sord-mut
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A deaf person who is unable to speak.
mute
deaf-and-dumb person
Portuguese
mudo
Lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak.
deaf-and-dumb
Related terms
deaf
Usage of
deaf-mute
in English
1
A
deaf
-
mute
boy tells me that he saw two dogs fighting yesterday.
2
I have spent this night alone except for the
deaf
-
mute
and Callistus.
3
The boy turned out to be a
deaf
-
mute
of great intelligence.
4
Fra Palamone ordered me to resume my old part of
deaf-mute
.
5
Fernandez, a Spanish painter of the sixteenth century, was a
deaf-mute
.
6
Almost as soon as he had gone a
deaf
-
mute
boy passed.
7
You couldn't take orders from a
deaf
-
mute
;
it was like a bad joke.
8
The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister Simplice in a letter to the
deaf-mute
Massieu.
9
I guess you whimpered, made sounds a
deaf
-
mute
would make.
10
Edilberto has his wife to support, his
deaf
-
mute
27-year-old son, and his six-year-old granddaughter.
11
It would be best, he decided, to continue his pretense of being a
deaf-mute
.
12
I asked my
deaf
-
mute
granny what she really wants.
13
The
deaf
-
mute
moaned like an animal by the bed.
14
I am like a
deaf
-
mute
among them at present.
15
Torture, the deaf-mute's suicide. And I made him a stutterer instead of a deaf mute.
16
Rumors abounded that I would become a
deaf
-
mute
wrestler.
Other examples for "deaf-mute"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
deaf-mute
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
bear a deaf-mute
deaf-mute sign
famous deaf-mute
fetch the deaf-mute
Translations for
deaf-mute
Portuguese
mudo
surdo-mudo
Catalan
sord-mut
mut
Deaf-mute
through the time