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

adjective. Incapable of using speech; mute. Used of humans.

adjective. Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear.

adjective. Unwilling to speak; taciturn.

adjective. Not expressed or articulated in sounds or words.

adjective. Not self-propelling.

adjective. Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid.

adjective. Unintentional; haphazard.

transitive verb. To make silent or dumb.

phrasal verb. To rewrite for a less educated or less sophisticated audience.

To become dumb; be silent.

To make dumb; silence; overpower the sound of.

Mute; silent; refraining from speech.

Destitute of the power of speech; unable to utter articulate sounds: as, a deaf and dumb person; the dumb brutes.

Mute; not accompanied with or emitting speech or sound: as, a dumb show; dumb signs.

Hence Lacking some usual power, manifestation, characteristic, or accompaniment; destitute of reality in some respect; irregular; simulative: as, dumb ague; dumb craft. See phrases below.

Dull; stupid; doltish.

Deficient in clearness or brightness, as a color.

Synonyms and Mute, etc. See silent.

transitive verb. To put to silence.

adjective. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds.

adjective. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words.

adjective. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.

adjective. See Deaf-mute.

adjective. a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined “chill.”

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adjective. any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a “speaking animal.”

adjective. a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands.

adjective. a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech.

adjective. See under crambo.

adjective. Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show.

adjective. to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.

verb. To silence.

verb. To make stupid.

verb. To represent as stupid.

verb. To reduce the intellectual demands of.

adjective. Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.

adjective. extremely stupid.

adjective. Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

adjective. temporarily incapable of speaking

adjective. unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

adjective. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

adjective. lacking the power of human speech

"Boy were we dumb to read them back in the 60's..dumb but ahh what silly fun."