muting

The process by which something is muted or silenced.

Noun

  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:

Forms

mutings

Derived

palm muting

Noun Entry 2

  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. […]...

Forms

mutings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of mute