muten

English

Etymology 1

From mute + -en.

Verb

muten (third-person singular simple present mutens, present participle mutening, simple past and past participle mutened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To make or become mute or muted.
    • 1988, Annales Zoologici Fennici, volume 25, page 258:
      The passage of auditory cues was also prevented by cutting off the wings of the males, ie. by "mutening” the males.
    • 2009, W. B. Baker, The Lion and the Falcon, page 137:
      The silent, twin-fanged fury of its king
      On mutened men, who have no voice to sing.

Etymology 2

From Middle French mutiner.

Verb

muten (third-person singular simple present mutens, present participle mutening, simple past and past participle mutened)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To mutiny.

Anagrams

Catalan

Verb

muten

  1. third-person plural present indicative form of mutar

Spanish

Verb

muten

  1. inflection of mutar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative
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