dummy
/ˈdʌmi/ verb C2- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without all of the intended functionality. · The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
- To feint.
He/she/it dummies · Past dummied · Past participle dummied · -ing form dummying
Verb forms
- Base form
- dummy
- He/she/it
- dummies
- Past
- dummied
- Past participle
- dummied
- -ing form
- dummying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Why, it’s a dummy,” said he.
“They seem to have been of a most interesting character—dummy bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate.
The discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and coming to the bed.
Have you seen the dummy?
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