Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dumb
Participle: dumbed
Gerund: dumbing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dumb |
| you | dumb |
| he;she;it | dumbs |
| we | dumb |
| you | dumb |
| they | dumb |
Perfect
| I | have dumbed |
| you | have dumbed |
| he;she;it | has dumbed |
| we | have dumbed |
| you | have dumbed |
| they | have dumbed |
Past
| I | dumbed |
| you | dumbed |
| he;she;it | dumbed |
| we | dumbed |
| you | dumbed |
| they | dumbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dumbed |
| you | had dumbed |
| he;she;it | had dumbed |
| we | had dumbed |
| you | had dumbed |
| they | had dumbed |
Future
| I | will dumb |
| you | will dumb |
| he;she;it | will dumb |
| we | will dumb |
| you | will dumb |
| they | will dumb |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dumbed |
| you | will have dumbed |
| he;she;it | will have dumbed |
| we | will have dumbed |
| you | will have dumbed |
| they | will have dumbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dumb |
| you | dumb |
| he;she;it | dumb |
| we | dumb |
| you | dumb |
| they | dumb |
Perfect
| I | have dumbed |
| you | have dumbed |
| he;she;it | have dumbed |
| we | have dumbed |
| you | have dumbed |
| they | have dumbed |
Imperfect
| I | dumbed |
| you | dumbed |
| he;she;it | dumbed |
| we | dumbed |
| you | dumbed |
| they | dumbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dumbed |
| you | had dumbed |
| he;she;it | had dumbed |
| we | had dumbed |
| you | had dumbed |
| they | had dumbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dumb |
| you | would dumb |
| he;she;it | would dumb |
| we | would dumb |
| you | would dumb |
| they | would dumb |
Perfect
| I | would have dumbed |
| you | would have dumbed |
| he;she;it | would have dumbed |
| we | would have dumbed |
| you | would have dumbed |
| they | would have dumbed |
Imperative
| you | dumb |
| we | Let's dumb |
| you | dumb |
Verbs conjugated like 'dumb'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dumb'
dub,
dump,
numb,
tumb,
bedumb,
bomb,
bub,
bulb,
bum,
bump,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English dumben, from Old English *dumbian (found in the compound ādumbian (“to become mute or dumb; keep silence; hold one’s peace”)), from Proto-Germanic *dumbijaną, *dumbōną (“to be silent, become dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with German verdummen (“to become dumb”). See: Middle English '
dumben', German, old spelling '
verdummen'.
Verbs referencing "dumb"
Scots Gaelic
dubh, Low Saxon verdummen.
Sample Sentences
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[…] what I would have spoke
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Was beastly dumbed by him. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:]
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The paralysis of the Northern conscience, the dumbing of the Northern voice, were coming to an end. [1911, Lindsay Swift, William Lloyd Garrison, page 272:]
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I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her. [2003, Angela Calabrese Barton, Teaching Science for Social Justice, page 124:]
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Bad-mouthing Neanderthals […] is symptomatic of a need to exclude and even demonize. […] I suggest that the unproven dumbing of the Neanderthals is an example of the same cultural preconception. [2004, Stephen Oppenheimer, The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa, page 107:]
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The ensuing storm caused the department to lower the bar—amid protests that this was dumbing the test down—so that only 80 percent of urban kids would fail. [2002, Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing, page 126:]