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• His younger brother was born dumb, and communicated with sign language.
• to unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures
• dumb show
• This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
• The country people frequently ſay,—How can you treat a poor dumb beaſt ill; and a ſtreſs is very properly laid on the word dumb; for dumb they appear to thoſe who do not obſerve their looks and geſtures; but God, who takes care of every thing, unserſtands their language...
• to pierce into the dumb past
• You are so dumb! You don't even know how to make toast!
• This is dumb! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago!
• Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.
• Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
• The paralysis of the Northern conscience, the dumbing of the Northern voice, were coming to an end.
• I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her.
• 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.
• 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.