dumbed
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English
Adjective
dumbed (comparative more dumbed, superlative most dumbed)
- (chiefly literary or poetic) That has been made dumb (speechless).
- 1963, Dennis Brutus, “This Sun on this Rubble”, in Gerald Moore, Ulli Beier, editors, Modern Poetry From Africa, new edition, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, page 214:
- Sharpevilled to spearpoints for revenging / but now our pride-dumbed mouths are wide in wordless supplication
Verb
dumbed
- simple past and past participle of dumb
Usage notes
- Often used in compounds.
References
- “dumbed, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
East Central German
Alternative forms
Adjective
dumbed
References
- 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 34: