1. to make dumb or silent; to render speechless or unable to speak
Usage: archaic; literary; third-person singular present tense of 'bedumb'

Examples

• The shocking news bedumbs the entire audience.
• Fear bedumbs his tongue whenever he tries to speak in public.
• Her sudden departure bedumbs all who knew her well.
• The magnitude of the disaster bedumbs even the most eloquent speakers.
• Grief bedumbs the mourners at the funeral service.