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Dumm

Dumm is a surname.
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Dumb

Lacking the power of speech. Used of animals and inanimate objects.
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Dumb

(Offensive) Incapable of using speech; mute. Used of humans. See Usage Note at mute.
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Dumb

Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear
I was dumb with disbelief.
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Dumb

Unwilling to speak; taciturn.
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Dumb

Not expressed or articulated in sounds or words
dumb resentment.
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Dumb

(Nautical) Not self-propelling.
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Dumb

Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid
dumb officials.
a dumb decision.
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Dumb

Unintentional; haphazard
dumb luck.
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Dumb

To make silent or dumb.
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Dumb

(dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
His younger brother was born dumb, and communicated with sign language.
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Dumb

(dated) Silent; unaccompanied by words.
dumb show
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Dumb

Extremely stupid.
You are so dumb! You don't even know how to make toast!
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Dumb

(figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
This is dumb! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago!
Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.
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Dumb

Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
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Dumb

To silence.
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Dumb

(transitive) To make stupid.
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Dumb

(transitive) To represent as stupid.
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Dumb

(transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.
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Dumb

Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures.
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Dumb

Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
To pierce into the dumb past.
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Dumb

Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
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Dumb

To put to silence.
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Dumb

slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
so dense he never understands anything I say to him
never met anyone quite so dim
although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick
dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
worked with the slow students
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Dumb

unable to speak temporarily;
struck dumb
speechless with shock
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Dumb

lacking the power of human speech;
dumb animals
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Dumb

unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
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