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• DUMB

名詞

D.U.M.B. (plural D.U.M.B.s)

1. Initialism of deep underground military base.
   • 1993, Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, “CHAPTER 3”, in Space Gate: The Veil Removed‎, Phoenix Source Distributors, Inc., →ISBN, page 31:

     Millions of dollars were funnelled through this office to MJ-12 and then out to the contractors and was used to build TOP SECRET alien bases, as well as TOP SECRET DUMB (good one--Deep Underground Military Bases), and the facilities promulgated by "Alternative 2", throughout the nation.

   • 2003, W. Elliot Brownlee, Hugh Davis Graham, “Reagan and National Security”, in The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies‎, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 94:

     Weinberger rejected a basing system that provoked political opposition in strongly Republican states and that included Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, a close friend of Reagan. Weinberger considered several other possibilities, including one known as DUMB—deep underground missile basing—that would embed the missile deep in the earth and then elevate it for launching.

   • 2008 June 2, Bud T. J. Johnson, Are You a Mushroom?: Have They Been Feeding You B. S. and Keeping You in the Dark? Book 1‎, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 61:

     4) Very large underground establishments referred to as “DUMB”, which was an abbreviation for “deep underground military bases”. Remember the big bang in Oklahoma City? - Murrah Building? (That was a tiny nuclear bomb warm-up for 9-11, which was to come later.) - One of the "DUMB" bases was said to have been accessible from the Murrah building.

   • 2011 September 15, Mark Barresi, “Chapter 6”, in The Encounter over Alaska‎, Author House, →ISBN, page 47:

     "The bases are known as either DUMB sites or DUSB sites,” Ray continued. He explained that DUMB stood for Deep Underground Military Base and DUSB stood for Deep Underground Submerged Base. A base off the coast of Hooper Bay in the Bering Sea was one of the military's first underwater bases.

   • 2014 August 14, David Sloma, Rescueplan: D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases) - Book 3‎, volume 3, Web of Life Solutions:

     Rescueplan: D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases)

   • 2015 October 12, Martin Gunn, “Chapter Six You'd Better Believe It”, in The Fourth Wall Syndrome‎, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN:

     In the darkness Cardenas asked, "Does anyone know anything about this underground base we are headed for?" "It's a DUMB you dummy!" exclaimed Katlin provocatively. "What's a DUMB?" replied Cardenas ignoring her rancour. Katlin rolled her eyes, she didn't suffer fools gladly. "It stands for Deep Underground Military Base. The government has always denied their existence but it is believed that there are hundreds all over the States."

   • 2016 June 30, David Sloma, Wormwood: D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases) - Book 5‎, volume 5, Web of Life Solutions:

     Leon and the General didn't see when they entered into the side of the mountain, but after they felt the slight descent that went on for miles. Eventually, the limo stopped, more hours later. When the limo driver opened the door they were deep inside a D.U.M.B. neither Leon or the General had seen before.

   • 2020 August 20, J.R. Boleyn, edited by Steve Denmark, Dawn of the Seventh Midnight‎, Abernathy & Smyth Publishing House, →ISBN, page 102:

     Talbot explained that utilizing Air Vacuum Technology in combination with electromagnetic power, the Hyper-Loop Car was capable of 750 m.p.h. and would whisk them to another top secret DOD (Department of Defense) DUMB (deep underground military base) complex in a little over an hour, the location naturally classified. A door slid open and Levine and Talbot stepped into the pod.

   • 2022 June 7, Stephen R. Leach, After the Red Pill‎, LifeRich Publishing, →ISBN:

     We see a 10 second video of a huge explosion with the headline, “DUMB (Deep Underground Military Bases)- BREAKING. BIG BQQQM Russia. The major explosion took place at a gas station in Novosibirsk, Russia. 22 people were injured. 8 of them in critical condition.

   • 2024 November 5, David Orange, Below Level 7‎, World Castle Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:

     The Black Budget currently consumes one point twenty-five trillion dollars per year. Some used least that amount in black programs like those concerned with Deep Underground Military Bases called DUMBs. Presently, one-hundred and twenty-nine of these DUMB bases are in the United States, growing yearly." […] "Back in 1979," Phil Schneider continued, "a firefight at Dulce occurred by accident. I was involved in building an addition to Dulce's underground military base, a DUMB base that goes very deep. It goes down seven levels and is over two-and-a-half miles deep. At that particular time, we had drilled four distinct holes in the desert, and we would link them together and blow out large sections at a time."

   • 2025 May 23, William Ubagan, “Chapter 7 The Shadow Protocol”, in The Lost Travelers‎, Publish Drive:

     Elsewhere, in a high-security D.U.M.B. (Deep Underground Military Base) in the Rocky Mountains, General Meredith Crowe of the Joint Frequency Task Force stared at a real-time 3D map. Dozens of energy beacons—mostly dormant—had flared online across the globe.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:D.U.M.B..

語源 1

From 中期英語 dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”), from 古期英語 dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz (“dull, dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).

The senses of stupid, unintellectual, and pointless, which are found regularly since the 19th century only, probably developed under the influence of German dumm and Dutch dom. Just like the English word, these originally meant "lacking the power of speech", but they developed the mentioned senses early on.

形容詞

dumb (comparative dumber, superlative dumbest)

1. (dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").

   Synonyms: mute, speechless, wordless

   His younger brother was born dumb, and communicated with sign language.

   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     to unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures

   • 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, chapter 2, in Original Stories from Real Life (Children's literature), London: J. Johnson, published 1796, pages 10–11:

     The country people frequently ſay,—How can you treat a poor dumb beaſt ill; and a ſtreſs is very properly laid on the word dumb; for dumb they appear to thoſe who do not obſerve their looks and geſtures; but God, who takes care of every thing, underſtands their language...

   • 1884 January 5, “Mighty maiden with a mission”, in W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Arthur Sullivan (music), Princess Ida‎, performed by D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, London, page 48:

     We are dumb and we would talk

   • 1992, “Opiate”, performed by Tool:

     Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow / What you need is someone strong to guide you

2. (archaic) Not talkative; taciturn or unwilling to speak.
3. (dated) Having no input or voice in running things.
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker), page 210:

     Life was never a May-game for men; in all times the lot of the dumb-millions born to toil was defaced with manifold sufferings, injustices, heavy burdens, avoidable and unavoidable; not play at all, but hard work that made the sinews sore, and the heart sore.

4. (dated, of things, actions, etc.) Unaccompanied by words or speech, silent, wordless.

   dumb show

   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak
     In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 23”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     O let my books be then the eloquence
     And dumb presagers of my speaking breast […]

   • 1881, John Campbell Shairp, Aspects of Poetry:

     to pierce into the dumb past

5. (dated) Not producing any sound, silent.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 39:

     […] Thro’ lands where not a leaf was dumb;
     ⁠But all the lavish hills would hum
     The murmur of a happy Pan: […]

6. (informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Stupid.

   Synonyms: feeble-minded, idiotic, moronic, stupid; see also Thesaurus:stupid

   Antonyms: intelligent, smart

   You are so dumb! You don't even know how to make toast!

7. (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

   Synonyms: banal, brainless, dopey, silly, stupid, ridiculous, vulgar

   This is dumb! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago!

   Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.

8. Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.
9. (of technology) Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.

   Antonym: smart

10. (obsolete, rare) Lacking brightness or clearness as a colour; dim, dull.
    • 1720, Daniel Defoe, The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton:

      Her stern, which was painted of a dumb white or dun color.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 dumben, from 古期英語 *dumbian (found in the compound ādumbian (“to become mute or dumb; keep silence; hold one’s peace”)), from Proto-Germanic *dumbijaną, *dumbōną (“to be silent, become dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with German verdummen (“to become dumb”).

動詞

dumb (third-person singular simple present dumbs, present participle dumbing, simple past and past participle dumbed)

1. (transitive, dated) To silence.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

     […] what I would have spoke
     Was beastly dumbed by him.

   • 1911, Lindsay Swift, William Lloyd Garrison, page 272:

     The paralysis of the Northern conscience, the dumbing of the Northern voice, were coming to an end.

2. (transitive) To make stupid.
   • 2003, Angela Calabrese Barton, Teaching Science for Social Justice, page 124:

     I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her.

3. (transitive) To represent as stupid.
   • 2004, Stephen Oppenheimer, The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa, page 107:

     Bad-mouthing Neanderthals […] is symptomatic of a need to exclude and even demonize. […] I suggest that the unproven dumbing of the Neanderthals is an example of the same cultural preconception.

4. (transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.
   • 2002, Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing, page 126:

     The ensuing storm caused the department to lower the bar—amid protests that this was dumbing the test down—so that only 80 percent of urban kids would fail.

派生語

語源 3

A minced oath of damn.

副詞

dumb (not comparable)

1. (African-American Vernacular) Very, extremely.

   Synonyms: type, mad, hella, wicked, (NYC) odee, (MLE, MTE) bare

   • 2017, Don Winslow, The Force, London: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 134:

     "What, you don't like your food?" Russo asks. ¶ "Are you kidding? It's dumb good."

   • 2019, Natisha Raynor, She Made a Savage Change His Ways 2, Atlanta, G.A.: Royalty Publishing House, →ISBN, page 4:

     Yo this shit is crazy how these females are making these doctors rich. My baby moms Miracle is getting surgery in a week or so. She's flying out to Colombia. That shit really baffles me as far as she's concerned, because Miracle is already dumb thick. I'm like damn ma, how big do you want your ass to be?

派生語

形容詞

dumb (comparative more dumb, superlative most dumb)

1. (African-American Vernacular, dated) An intensifier expressing contempt; damn, damned.
   • 2002, Glenna Whiteaker Wilding, Tales of a Ridgerunner: The Adventures of a Young Family Growing Up in the East Tennessee Mountains, 1890s - 1920s, Prospect, K.Y.: Harmony House Publishers, →ISBN, page 95:

     Pap came to stand beside her and watched the two play. "That pup has just plum' fell in love with our Sammy, an' Sam's real took by him," Pap said. "It's a dumb shame, too. I talked to Jim, but he's not of a mind to sell."

参照

発音

• IPA: /dumb/

形容詞

dumb

1. mute, dumb (unable to speak)
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Fif and twentiġ manna myslīċe ġeuntrume cōmon tō þām hālgan heora hǣle biddende; sum wǣron blinde, sume wǣron healte, sume ēac dēafe, and dumbe ēac sum and hī ealle wurdon ānes dæġes ġehǣlede þurh þæs hālgan þingunge and him hām ġewendon.

     Twenty-five men, sickened in various ways, came to the saint begging for the health; some were blind, some were lame, some were also deaf, and some were dumb, and they were all healed in one day through the intercession of the saint and went home.

2. (substantive) a mute
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Luke 11:14

     Þā hē ūt ādrāf þā dēofolsēocnesse, þā spræc se dumba.

     When he drove out the demon, the mute person spoke.

語形変化

関連する語

• dumbnes

派生した語

• Middle English: dumb
  • Scots: dumb
  • English: dumb

語源

From 古期英語 dumb.

発音

• IPA: /ˈdum(b)/, /ˈduːm(b)/

形容詞

dumb (plural and weak singular dumbe)

1. Lacking or failing to display the faculty of voice:
   1. Unspeaking; unable to speak or having muteness.
   2. (substantive) A mute; one who can't speak.
   3. Temporarily unable to speak due to strong emotions.
   4. Unwilling or reluctant to speak; not speaking.
2. Powerless, ineffectual (either inherently or due to events)
3. Unknowledgeable; having no understanding or sense.
4. (of animals) Unwilling or unable to make a noise; quiet or silent.
5. (rare) Unrevealing, useless; having no important messages or lessons.
6. (rare) Having nothing to keep one busy or engaged.
7. (rare, figurative) Refusing to preach or evangelise.
8. (rare, figurative) Refusing to be conceited or vainglorious.

派生語

• dombenesse
• dumben

派生した語

• English: dumb
• Scots: dumb

参照

• “dǒmb, dǒumb, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-27.