Meanings
adjectivedumbed (comparative more dumbed, superlative most dumbed)
comparative more dumbed · superlative most dumbed
- literarypoeticThat has been made dumb (speechless).
Sharpevilled to spearpoints for revenging / but now our pride-dumbed mouths are wide in wordless supplication
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
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of dumb
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