Definition of "muting" [mut•ing]

• Present participle of mute. (verb)
• The dung of birds. (noun)

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• "If you succeed in muting all your critics to the left, all you do is create a situation where your program is defined in the press and the congress and the public imagination as the most-leftwing-possible proposal."
• "The booing — a spontaneous expression of natrional hostility towards a venal corrupt figure — - is an established fact and no amount of muting from the Big Three or Cable can erase it."
• "So there's a kind of collaboration between Presidents and the public in muting these ailments."