bedumb

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"These make no rustle save Some pine-cone dropt, or murmur that condemns Murmur; bedumb'd with moss that giant nave."
"Let not the melancholy past / Bedumb your hardened ears; [...]"
"Our disease is not smugness, but the anxiety that bedumbs the singer."

From be- + dumb. Compare Middle English adumbien, from Old English ādumbian (“to become mute or dumb, keep silence, hold one’s peace”).

bedumbs (present, singular) bedumbing (participle, present) bedumbed (participle, past) bedumbed (past)

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What does bedumb mean?

To make or render dumb, or mute.

Where does bedumb come from?

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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