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{
"term": "dumb",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "stupid",
"labels": "(especially North American English, informal)(offensive)(offensive)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "That was a pretty dumb thing to do."
},
{
"text": "If the police question you, **act dumb** *(= pretend you do not know anything)*."
},
{
"text": "In her early movies she played a **dumb blonde**."
},
{
"text": "I'm sure my question sounded really dumb."
},
{
"text": "The idea is unworkable and just plain dumb."
},
{
"text": "What are they talking about? It sounds dumb."
},
{
"text": "How could he be so dumb as to do that?"
},
{
"text": "That's the dumbest idea I ever heard."
},
{
"text": "She's going out with some dumb jock from her high school."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "temporarily not speaking or refusing to speak",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We were all **struck dumb** with amazement."
},
{
"text": "We sat there in dumb silence."
},
{
"text": "She stood in the doorway, dumb with rage."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "become", "be struck"],
"preposition": ["with"],
"phrases": ["deaf and dumb"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "unable to speak",
"labels": "(old-fashioned, offensive)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was born **deaf and dumb**."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "become", "be struck"],
"preposition": ["with"],
"phrases": ["deaf and dumb"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dʌm/",
"audio": "du/dumb/dumb__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dʌm/",
"audio": "du/dumb/dumb__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse dumbr and Gothic dumbs ‘mute’, also to Dutch dom ‘stupid’ and German dumm ‘stupid’."
}