1
as in shushing
to stop the noise or speech of
muted the television while she was on the phone
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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
Echo chambers can emerge, amplifying consensus while muting dissenting expertise.
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The Shag Originated in the late 1960s and popularized in the 1970s, the shag cut is comprised of short, choppy layers around the face, muting the body of hair on the sides.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 Aug. 2025
Gas prices likely fell in July and grocery costs are expected to barely increase, muting overall inflation.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
The lawsuit says San Diego Central Jail staff have routinely violated the facility’s policies by ignoring or muting intercom calls.
—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
Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The Shag Originated in the late 1960s and popularized in the 1970s, the shag cut is comprised of short, choppy layers around the face, muting the body of hair on the sides.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 Aug. 2025
Gas prices likely fell in July and grocery costs are expected to barely increase, muting overall inflation.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
The lawsuit says San Diego Central Jail staff have routinely violated the facility’s policies by ignoring or muting intercom calls.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muting
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But Kennedy has already propagated an insidious revolution within the agencies under his control, using a playbook familiar to illiberal leaders—culling expertise, silencing critics, and weaponizing administrative procedure to grant a veneer of legitimacy to his actions.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Moreno countered that the ruling party was silencing opposition voices and insisted Fernández Noroña had instigated the fight.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Nine of those points came in a 16-0 third quarter run that turned a seven-point deficit into a 61-52 lead heading to the fourth, quieting the packed house in San Francisco’s Chase Center.—
Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
7 Sep. 2025
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But instead of quieting interest in the case, the release of the memo has only left MAGA voices more insistent the administration release more information.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
17 July 2025
Cite this Entry
“Muting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muting. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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