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struck dumb
adjective as in silent
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- bashful
- buttoned-up
- checked
- clammed up
- close
- closed-up
- closemouthed
- curbed
- dumb
- dummied up
- faint
- hush
- iced
- inarticulate
- incoherent
- inconversable
- indistinct
- inhibited
- laconic
- mousy
- muted
- noiseless
- nonvocal
- not talkative
- reserved
- shy
- silentious
- soundless
- still
- taciturn
- tongue-tied
- unclear
- uncommunicative
- unheard
- unsociable
- unspeaking
- voiceless
- wordless
- zipped
Example Sentences
Effectively, they were all struck dumb.
Instead, when it counted, Team Normal was struck dumb — and let the country down.
Chastain and Nyong’o rumble with Diane Kruger, peer pressure Penélope Cruz and are struck dumb by Fan Bingbing, who saunters in halfway through to shake things up.
Struck dumb, seriously dumb by her mere and unremarkable presence, Nick falls fast and hard, and soon tumbles into the kind of complicated trouble that inevitably bedevils noir heroes with granite jaws and bleeding hearts.
“It’s not as if I haven’t seen this all along. The idea of killing him is so repellent that I haven’t been able to think of it as anything but a chess-problem. A game. You have no idea how much thought I’ve put into this. Even to the strain of poison. It’s said to make the throat swell, do you know that? Victims are said to be struck dumb, unable to name their poisoner.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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