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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dumb .
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Examples
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He gave us a beautiful description in Spanish, dumbed down for me, I believe of how they are made and what they mean.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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He gave us a beautiful description in Spanish, dumbed down for me, I believe of how they are made and what they mean.
last post from peru 2006
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He gave us a beautiful description in Spanish, dumbed down for me, I believe of how they are made and what they mean.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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But we shouldn’t use what I call the dumbed-down new evening news model to decide what’s up (one side talks, the other side talks, you conclude with “there’s two sides, I guess we’ll never know”).
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And if so, you should know that WoW does an excellent job of providing their playerbase with what I like to call dumbed-down game mechanics.
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And a sudden sense of the utter seriousness of this dilemma dumbed him.
The Patrician John Galsworthy 1900
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And a sudden sense of the utter seriousness of this dilemma dumbed him.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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It is important to remember here that the style of television weather presentation on the BBC - sometimes called dumbed-down, patronising and childishly simplistic by critics - is controlled by BBC producers and managers, and not by the Met Office.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Wahh, wahh hams complain and point fingers at so-called dumbed down testing and no code hams and all the sing song nonsense they always do.
eHam.net News 2009
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The kind of person that would need the subtitles dumbed down is the kind of person that would never watch a subtitled film.
Hollywood Elsewhere 2009
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