"bedumb" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1901, Herbert Trench, Deirdre wed and other poems - Page 39:",
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          "text": "Let not the melancholy past / Bedumb your hardened ears; [...]",
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          "text": "Our disease is not smugness, but the anxiety that bedumbs the singer.",
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