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- adjective Alternative form of
deaf-mute . - noun Alternative form of
deaf-mute .
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Examples
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I went on, trailing Elnear through more meaningless head-on collisions like a dazed deafmute.
Catspaw Vinge, Joan D. 1988
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Furthermore, he needed a baseline from which to extrapolate changes of language in the future; there/then he was also often a virtual deafmute.
There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972
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The daughter of Diego de Lobera of Plasencia, and of Francisca de Torres of Biscay, Ann was a deafmute until her seventh year.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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He pretended to be deafmute and continued with this act when he was manacled and flown to Baghdad for interrogation.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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_ (A deafmute idiot with goggle eyes, his shapeless mouth dribbling, jerks past, shaken in Saint Vitus 'dance.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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