dumb /ˈdʌm/
 (a.)啞的,啞巴的,無聲的,沈默的


 dumb /ˈdəm/ 形容詞
 啞的


 dumb
 基本型


 Dumb a.
 1. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
    To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures.   --Hooker.
 2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
    This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.   --Shak.
    To pierce into the dumb past.   -- J. C. Shairp.
 3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.]
    Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.   --De Foe.
 Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute.
 Dumb ague, or Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined “chill.” [U.S.]
 Dumb animal, any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a “speaking animal.”
 Dumb cake, a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. --Halliwell.
 Dumb cane Bot., a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech.
 Dumb crambo. See under crambo.
 Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. “Inexplicable dumb shows and noise.” --Shak. (b) Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show.
 To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.
 Syn: -- Silent; speechless; noiseless. See Mute.


 Dumb, v. t. To put to silence. [Obs.]

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 dumb
      adj 1: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
             "so dense he never understands anything I say to him";
             "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at
             classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly
             quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really
             dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or
             being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow
             students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, obtuse, slow]
      2: unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with
         shock" [syn: speechless]
      3: lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"
      4: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: mute,
          silent]


 Dumb
    from natural infirmity (Ex. 4:11); not knowing what to say
    (Prov. 31:8); unwillingness to speak (Ps. 39:9; Lev. 10:3).
    Christ repeatedly restored the dumb (Matt. 9:32, 33; Luke 11:14;
    Matt. 12:22) to the use of speech.