Dumb and Stumbling

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Dumb adjective - Deliberately refraining from speech.

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Stumbling and dumb are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stumbling" instead an adjective "Dumb".

Nearby Words: dumbness, dumbly, dumbed, dumbing

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Dumb and stumbling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dumb" instead an adjective "Stumbling".

Nearby Words: stumble, stumbled

Book Dumb: During the storybook scenes, Garcia has trouble reading whenever he's the narrator, sometimes stumbling with words and reading slow.

Source: Video Game / Shadows of the Damned
This was implied in the novel, since the animals hear a loud crash and run out in time to see Squealer stumbling around near the barn with a ladder and pot of white paint, but they're too dumb to realize what he was doing.

Source: Literature / Animal Farm
In the Star Wars anthology Tales from Jabba's Palace, Dumb Muscle Gartogg hauls around and talks to the dead bodies of the cook's assistant and a B'Omarr monk after stumbling onto the mystery of their murder and being tasked with solving it.

Source: Companion Cube

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