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dumb

გამოთქმა: /dʌm/

ზედსართავი

Universal
  • 1(of a person) unable to speak, most typically because of congenital deafness:he was born deaf, dumb, and blind
  • (of animals) unable to speak as a natural state and thus regarded as helpless or deserving pity.
  • [predic.] temporarily unable or unwilling to speak:she stood dumb while he poured out a stream of abuse
  • [attributive] resulting in or expressed by speechlessness:they stared in dumb amazement
  • 2 informal, chiefly North American stupid:a dumb question
  • 3(of a computer terminal) able only to transmit data to or receive data from a computer; having no independent processing capability. Often contrasted with intelligent.

ზმნა

Universal
  • 1 (dumb something down) informal simplify or reduce the intellectual content of something so as to make it accessible to a larger number of people:the producers categorically deny that they’re dumbing down the show
  • [no object] (dumb down) become less intellectually challenging:the need to dumb down for mass audiences
  • 2 literary make dumb or unheard; silence:a splendour that dazed the mind and dumbed the tongue

dumb luck

pure chance:finally, through dumb luck, it worked and I got a network connection

play dumb

pretend to be unintelligent or unaware in order to deceive someone or gain an advantage:‘Hide what?’ Aubrey said, still playing dumb

dumbly

adverb

dumbness

noun

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