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dumb

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4 lettersPronunciation /dʌm/Part of speech adjectiveSorted bdmuStarts with DEnds with B0 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

Word origin

From Middle English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”), from Old English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz (“dull, dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).

Used in a sentence

  • deaf, dumb, and blind
  • His younger brother was born dumb, and communicated with sign language.
  • to unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures

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