English Explanatory Dictionary

bedumb

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make or render dumb, or mute.

Word forms

bedumb bedumbs bedumbing bedumbed

Etymology

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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