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Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.

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  1. a. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
  2. a. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
  3. adj. temporarily incapable of speaking
  4. 1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
  5. j:100 s. temporarily incapable of speaking