dumben

From dumb +‎ -en.

• Rhymes: -ʌmən

dumben (third-person singular simple present dumbens, present participle dumbening, simple past and past participle dumbened)

1. (transitive) To make dumb.
   • 2004, Welsh Arts Council, Poetry Wales:

     Please hush-now this heart to dumben this breath. Please muffle the whimpers, the drippings of sweat.

• Ndembu, numbed

• doumben

From Old English dumbian, from Proto-Germanic *dumbijaną, *dumbōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdumbən/

dumben (rare)

1. To make no sound or movement.

• English: dumb

• “dǒmben, v.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-02.