dumb
/dʌm/ verb C2- To silence.
- To make stupid.
- To represent as stupid.
- To reduce the intellectual demands of.
He/she/it dumbs · Past dumbed · Past participle dumbed · -ing form dumbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- dumb
- He/she/it
- dumbs
- Past
- dumbed
- Past participle
- dumbed
- -ing form
- dumbing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Douglas’s dumb-bells,” said Ames.
“Dumb-bell—there’s only one.
“One dumb-bell—” Holmes said seriously; but his remarks were interrupted by a sharp knock at the door.
I don’t say that we have fathomed it—far from it—but when we have traced the missing dumb-bell—”
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