1
as in shushing
to stop the noise or speech of
muted the television while she was on the phone
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2
as in muffling
to deaden the sound of
closing the windows muted the traffic noise so we could get to sleep
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Recent Examples of muting
The lawsuit says San Diego Central Jail staff have routinely violated the facility’s policies by ignoring or muting intercom calls.
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Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2025
Philadelphia, however, never allowed this Super Bowl — a rematch from two years earlier — to ever get close, muting Mahomes' effectiveness from the opening drive.
—Andrew Greif, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2025
Local businesses that support awards shows are likewise ambivalent about the appropriateness of muting awards season revelry.
—Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2025
McLaurin and Osborn sat on their stools and talked, muting out player interviews and teammates bantering about the College Football Playoff and Bronny James.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Below the video panel are buttons for pausing the stream, muting the sound, taking a snapshot, manually recording a video, choosing video quality settings, and switching between a portrait and landscape view.
—PCMAG, 15 Jan. 2025
Directly below the video are buttons for taking a snapshot, manually recording a video, muting the sound, and making a two-way voice call to the camera without having to press and hold the Talk button.
—PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
However, the survey also found technology brings some communication challenges, with more than a third of participants in Arizona citing miscommunication as a major cause of family disagreements, and about half admitted to blocking or muting a family member at some point.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
At the same time, a jump in jobless claims data signaled a potentially weaker economy, muting some of the gain in yields.
—Sean Conlon,sam Meredith, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2025
Philadelphia, however, never allowed this Super Bowl — a rematch from two years earlier — to ever get close, muting Mahomes' effectiveness from the opening drive.
—Andrew Greif, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2025
Local businesses that support awards shows are likewise ambivalent about the appropriateness of muting awards season revelry.
—Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2025
McLaurin and Osborn sat on their stools and talked, muting out player interviews and teammates bantering about the College Football Playoff and Bronny James.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Below the video panel are buttons for pausing the stream, muting the sound, taking a snapshot, manually recording a video, choosing video quality settings, and switching between a portrait and landscape view.
—PCMAG, 15 Jan. 2025
Directly below the video are buttons for taking a snapshot, manually recording a video, muting the sound, and making a two-way voice call to the camera without having to press and hold the Talk button.
—PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
However, the survey also found technology brings some communication challenges, with more than a third of participants in Arizona citing miscommunication as a major cause of family disagreements, and about half admitted to blocking or muting a family member at some point.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
At the same time, a jump in jobless claims data signaled a potentially weaker economy, muting some of the gain in yields.
—Sean Conlon,sam Meredith, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Muting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muting. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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