Mute and Shadow

Mute

Mute verb - To stop the noise or speech of.

Shadow and mute are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shadow" instead a verb "Mute".

Nearby Words: muted, muteness, muting, mutely

Shadow

Shadow verb - To go after or on the track of.

Mute and shadow are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mute" instead a verb "Shadow".

Nearby Words: shade, shady, shadowy, shadowed, shadowing

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • A woman tells some girls a very morbid story of how a mute girl found her voice (via screaming) whilst being raped and then killed her rapists who she and her father had put on a shadow-puppet show for.
  • The Omniscient Council of Vagueness They sit in shadow in a chamber high atop the Skaven capital of Skavenblight, attended by mute albino guards and equipped with all the usual trapdoors-into-pits-of-mutant-monsters expected when dealing with insufficiently pleasing underlings.
  • Film / G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra While he's usually rendered mute by an injury, in the film it's mentioned he took a vow of silence after Storm Shadow apparently killed their master.
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