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Definition of a dumb down
dumb down
noun
- You used big words give me the dumb down version (to simplify or made easier)
Last edited on Jan 29 2014. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 29 2014.
verb
- To dumb down something, or to dumb something down means to put it into simpler, easier terms so that someone who isn't as well educated on the subject can understand. It usually applies to an explanation. One "dumbs down" an explanation.
It likely comes from the idea that if you have to "dumb it down," then the person you are giving an explanation to is too dumb to understand the more complex explanation, and you have to lower your explanation to their intellectual level.Last edited on Jun 19 2017. Submitted by Anonymous on Jun 19 2017.
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Other terms relating to 'down': | |
| Definitions include: to prepare for hardship. | |
| Definitions include: a fight or severe beating. | |
| Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up. | |
| Definitions include: to back down from a situation. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet. | |
| Definitions include: also "bow down to the white porcelain god." | |
| Definitions include: to sadden one. | |
| Definitions include: to greatly impress a crowd. | |
| Definitions include: unattractive. | |
| Definitions include: a person who has oral sex and intercourse with multiple people. | |
| Definitions include: to knuckle down; to submit to; to melt down; to be unable to take the heat; to give in. | |
| Definitions include: overly formal, conservative. | |
| Definitions include: to eat. | |
| Definitions include: to give someone oral sex. | |
| Definitions include: to stop being angry. | |
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| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
| Definitions include: daughter; acronym for "dear daughter". | |
| Definitions include: very, extremely. | |
| Definitions include: extremely unintelligent. | |
| Definitions include: very unintelligent. | |
| Definitions include: very unintelligent. | |
| Definitions include: very unintelligent. | |
| Definitions include: unintelligent person; "moron"; "idiot". | |
| Definitions include: an unintelligent female. | |
| Definitions include: "dumb brick", i.e. very cold. | |
| Definitions include: an unintelligent person. | |
| Definitions include: form of address for an unintelligent person. | |
| Definitions include: extremely unintelligent. | |
| Definitions include: very quiet. | |
| Definitions include: an unintelligent person. | |
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