muting

muting

English

Verb

muting

1. present participle of mute

Noun

muting (plural mutings)

1. The dung of birds.
   • Charles Darwin

     It is more surprising that instinct should lead small nesting birds to remove their broken eggs and the early mutings […]

2. The process by which something is muted or silenced.
   • 2012, Gary Taylor, ‎Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton (page 338)

     Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.