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verb
(tr) to make or become less intellectually demanding or sophisticatedattempts to dumb down news coverage
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How to use dumb down in a sentence

  • Ah for the ordered wisdom of the war-array of these, And the folks that are sitting about them in dumb down-trodden peace!

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