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

• Tumen, tumen, unmet

Catalan

Verb

muten

1. third-person plural present indicative of mutar

East Central German

Etymology

Compare German mieten.

Verb

muten

1. (Erzgebirgisch) to rent

Further reading

• Manfred Blechschmidt, Behüt eich fei dos Licht Ein Weihnachtsbuch des Erzgebirges P. 111

Galician

Verb

muten

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

Spanish

Verb

muten

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