{
    "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’."
}