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bedumb

bedumb verb: to make or render dumb, or mute.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make or render dumb, or mute.
    • 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
    • Let not the melancholy past / Bedumb your hardened ears; [...]1902, Frederick Strange Kolle, Pen lyrics - Page 11

Forms of bedumb

third-person singular presentbedumbs
present participlebedumbing
past participlebedumbed
pastbedumbed

Origin of bedumb

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

Questions about bedumb

What does bedumb mean?
Bedumb means to make or render dumb, or mute.
What part of speech is bedumb?
Bedumb is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedumb?
The past tense of bedumb is bedumbed.

Words near bedumb in the dictionary

  1. Beduins
  2. beduke
  3. beduked
  4. bedukes
  5. beduking
  6. bedumb
  7. bedumbed
  8. bedumbing
  9. bedumbs
  10. bedunce
  11. bedunced

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