Strike Dumb

Definition: Strike Dumb

1. Render speechless, as by surprising or shocking; "we were dumbstruck by the candidate's announcement".

Synonyms within Context: Strike Dumb

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aphony	Silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short.
Humility	Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.
Wonder	Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Familiar Quotations: Strike Dumb

Author	Quotation
Johann Kaspar Lavater	He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression: Strike Dumb

Modern Translation: Strike Dumb

Language		Translations for "strike dumb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		ohromit (amaze, astound, bewilder, confound, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, stun, stupefy, transfix). (various references)

Greek		κατακεραυνώνω (wither). (various references)

Pig Latin		ikestray umbday

Swedish		göra stum, göra mållös (dumbfound). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Strike Dumb

Anagrams: Strike Dumb

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-k-m-r-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: burkites, diestrum, imbruted, imbrutes, murkiest, resubmit, terbiums.
	-3 letters: bestrid, bistred, brisked, brisket, bruised, bruited, brutism, burdies, burkite, bursted, bustier, disturb, duikers, dumbest, duskier, dustier, erbiums, imbrued, imbrues, imbrute, mirkest, misteuk, murkest, muskier, mustier, rubiest, skirted, smirked, studier, subedit, subitem, tediums, terbium, timbers, timbres.
	-4 letters: bedims, bedsit, bemist, besmut, bestir, bestud, biders, bidets, bikers.
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	stupefacti, stupefactus, stupefecerunt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "strike dumb": To strike dumb. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.