Deaf-mute

Definitions: Deaf-mute

Deaf-mute

Adjective

1. Lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak.

Noun

1. A deaf person who is unable to speak.

Date "deaf-mute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Note: Deaf-mute \Deaf"-mute`\, noun. person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it. [See Illust. of Dactylology.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Deaf-mute

Commercial Usage: Deaf-mute

Domain	Title
Books	The Healing of Rodolphe Grivel Congenital Deaf-Mute - 1927: Congenital Deaf-Mute (reference) What the Deaf-Mute Heard: A Novel (reference) (more book examples)
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Modern Translations: Deaf-mute

Language		Translations for "deaf-mute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		süketnéma (deaf and dumb, deaf mute). (various references)

Italian		sordomuto (deaf, deaf and dumb, deaf mute). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		聾�"� (deaf and dumb, deafness), �"� . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おし (audacity, authority, commanding presence, illustration, miniature shrine in a temple, pressing down, pressure, push, showing in graphic form or by diagram, weight), ろうあ (deaf and dumb, deafness). (various references)

Manx		bouyran balloo. (various references)

Pig Latin		eaf-muteday.(various references)

Russian		глухонемой (deaf and dumb, deaf mute, deaf-and-dumb). (various references)

Spanish		sordomudo (deaf and dumb, deaf mute). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Deaf-mute

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-m-t-u"
	-2 letters: defame, defeat, meated, teamed.
	-3 letters: adeem, datum, defat, edema, etude, famed, fated, feted, feued, fumed, fumet, mated, meted, muted, tamed.
	-4 letters: daft, dame, date, daut, deaf, deem, deet, deft, deme, duet, duma, emeu, fade, fame, fate, feat, feed, feet, feme, feta, fete, feud, fume, made, mate, maud, maut, mead, meat, meed, meet, meta, mete, mute, tame, team, teed, teem, tufa.
	-5 letters: aft, amu, ate, dam, dee, due, eat, eau, eft, eme, emf, emu, eta, fad, fat, fed, fee, fem, fet, feu, fud, mad, mae, mat, med, met, mud, mut, tad, tae, tam, tau, tea, ted, tee, uta.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-m-t-u"
	+4 letters: multifaceted, reformulated.
	+5 letters: preformulated.
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