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deaf-and-dumb
[def-uhn-duhm]
deaf-and-dumb
adjective
unable to hear or speak
noun
a deaf person without speech
Usage
Sensitive Note
Word History and Origins
Origin of deaf-and-dumb1
Example Sentences
Even if he was a deaf-and-dumb mute he understood every word she said to him.
Users would love to pick and choose individual shows and have them delivered through applications rather than through deaf-and-dumb multicast streams.
The milkman told Jimmy that he had met the deaf-and-dumb woman that morning.
It has been asserted that if 'Hamlet,' for example, were to be performed in a deaf-and-dumb asylum, the inmates would be able to understand it and to enjoy it.
So Bonny was allowed to engage the deaf-and-dumb teamster by signs, and the two Indians by a few words of Chinook, without hinderance.
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