| dumb | (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, obtuse, slow |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: mute, silent |
| (adjective) temporarily incapable of speaking | Synonyms: speechless |
| (adjective) lacking the power of human speech | - |
| dumbass | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| dumbbell | (noun) an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dummy, pinhead |
| dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| dumbfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumbfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding |
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| dumbly | (adverb) mutely | - |
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| (adverb) stupidly or insensitively | Synonyms: densely, obtusely |
| dumbness | (noun) the quality of being mentally slow and limited | Synonyms: denseness, slow-wittedness |
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| dumbstricken | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumbstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumbwaiter | (noun) a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another | Synonyms: food elevator |
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| dumdum | (noun) a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound | Synonyms: dumdum bullet |
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| dumfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumbfounding |
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| dummy | (adjective) having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function | - |
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| (noun) a figure representing the human form | - |
| (noun) a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet | Synonyms: blank, blank shell |
| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, pinhead |
| (noun) a person who does not talk | Synonyms: silent person |
| (verb) make a dummy of | Synonyms: dummy up |
| dump | (noun) a place where supplies can be stored | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs | - |
| (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
| (noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: shit |
| (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, deck, floor, knock down |
| (verb) drop (stuff) in a heap or mass | - |
| (verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) throw away as refuse | - |
| (verb) sell at artificially low prices | Synonyms: underprice |
| (verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: ditch |
| dumpcart | (noun) a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling | - |
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| dumper | (noun) truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity | Synonyms: dump truck, tip truck, tipper, tipper lorry, tipper truck |
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| dumpiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: squattiness |
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| dumping | (noun) selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market | - |
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| dumpling | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumplings |
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| (noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry | - |
| dumplings | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumpling |
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| dumps | (noun) an informal expression for a mildly depressed state | Synonyms: mopes |
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| dumpsite | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
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| dumpy | (adjective) resembling a garbage dump | - |
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| (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby |
| (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy |