bedumb

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verb

To make or render dumb, or mute.

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

verbbedumb (third-person singular simple present bedumbs, present participle bedumbing, simple past and past participle bedumbed)

present singular third person bedumbs · participle present bedumbing · participle past bedumbed · past bedumbed

  1. transitiveTo make or render dumb, or mute.

    Let not the melancholy past / Bedumb your hardened ears; [...]

    1902, Frederick Strange Kolle, Pen lyrics - Page 11
    2 more examples

    These make no rustle save Some pine-cone dropt, or murmur that condemns Murmur; bedumb'd with moss that giant nave.

    1901, Herbert Trench, Deirdre wed and other poems - Page 39

    Our disease is not smugness, but the anxiety that bedumbs the singer.

    1964, John Holloway, The lion hunt: a pursuit of poetry and reality - Page 18

Origin

From be- + dumb. Compare Middle English adumbien, from Old English ādumbian (“to become mute or dumb, keep silence, hold one’s peace”).

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APA

bedumb. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedumb

MLA

“bedumb.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedumb. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bedumb,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedumb.

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