dumben
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ʌmən
Verb edit
dumben (third-person singular simple present dumbens, present participle dumbening, simple past and past participle dumbened)
- (transitive, rare) To make dumb.
- 2004, Welsh Arts Council, Poetry Wales:
- Please hush-now this heart to dumben this breath. Please muffle the whimpers, the drippings of sweat.
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Etymology edit
From Old English dumbian, from Proto-West Germanic *dumbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dumbōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dumben (rare)
- To make no sound or movement.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of dumben (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants edit
- English: dumb
References edit
- “dǒmben, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-02.