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Only if you take the meaning of dumb to be merely synonymous with stupid (which is only its prime sense in American versions of English), Father Steve - but if you allow for its alternate and much older meanings of 'speechless' it is indeed a meaningful augmentation.
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/dumb?view=uk
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shalini_ch 09/04/05 06:29 AM Buffalo Shrdlu 09/04/05 10:22 AM sjmaxq 09/04/05 11:01 AM maverick 09/04/05 03:55 PM sjmaxq 09/04/05 09:26 PM maverick 09/05/05 03:07 PM Jackie 09/05/05 04:18 PM Faldage 09/05/05 08:47 PM shalini_ch 09/05/05 09:44 AM Buffalo Shrdlu 09/05/05 10:55 AM Faldage 09/05/05 11:43 AM Jackie 09/05/05 02:04 PM wsieber 09/07/05 05:28 AM Father Steve 09/04/05 01:07 PM zmjezhd 09/04/05 02:12 PM inselpeter 09/04/05 07:56 PM maverick 09/04/05 08:09 PM zmjezhd 09/04/05 08:23 PM
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