Deaf-mute Synonyms

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A deaf person who is unable to speak
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mute
  2. deaf-and-dumb-person
Lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. deaf-and-dumb
  2. deaf-eared
  3. dull-eared
  4. word-deaf

Deaf-mute Sentence Examples

  • The deaf mute was also concealed in the Temple.

  • A child was in fact delivered to her agents, but he was a deaf mute.

  • The state charitable institutions - insane asylum, deaf-mute and blind institutes - and the penitentiary, are at Little Rock.

  • Richemont's tale that the woman Simon, who was genuinely attached to him, smuggled him out in a basket, is simple and more credible, and does not necessarily invalidate the story of the subsequent operations with the deaf mute and the scrofulous patient, Laurent in that case being deceived from the beginning, but it renders them extremely unlikely.

  • In 1837 Dr Howe went still further and brought the famous blind deaf-mute, Laura Bridgman (a.v.) to the school.

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