English-French translations for mute

muet
Le Parlement européen a été muet, hormis un timide communiqué de la délégation Maghreb. The European Parliament has been mute apart from a timid statement by the Maghreb delegation. Le Parlement européen ne peut ni ne doit rester sourd et muet face à une telle violation de l'État de droit. The European Parliament cannot and should not remain deaf and mute in the face of such a violation of the rule of law. Les années que j’ai passées derrière des barreaux froids, entourée de murs sourds et muets, resteront dans notre conscience comme un coup sans reconnaissance. The years I spent behind cold bars, surrounded by deaf and mute walls, will remain in our consciousness as suffering that went unacknowledged at the time.
muetteLa nature n'est toutefois pas muette dans ce conflit. However, nature is not mute in this conflict.

rendre silencieux
rendre [[muet]]
silencieuse
sourdine
taire
Mais, dans ses tentatives de faire taire les critiques du gouvernement colombien, je pense qu'il croit que nous pensons que le président Pastrana est de mauvaise foi. But in his attempts to mute criticism of the Colombian Government, I think he thinks we think that President Pastrana has bad faith.

Not having the power of speech; dumb.
Silent; not making a sound.
Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters
A stopped consonant; a stop.
An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
A person who does not have the power of speech.
An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
A mute swan
To silence, to make quiet
Of a bird: to defecate.
The faeces of a hawk or falcon
To cast off; to moult

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