"undumb" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1926, P. C. Wren, Beau Sabreur: By Percival Christopher Wren, page 298",
          "text": "Then I did a miracle on myself and came undumb.",
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          "ref": "1995, Joseph Grigely, Textualterity: Art, Theory, and Textual Criticism, University of Michigan Press, page 126",
          "text": "This is a perfect phrase, a phrase that unveils the irony of Cézanne's unlong and undumb paintings — each, we might assume, with its own unfixed idea of velocity.",
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Vita Sackville-West, edited by Peter Washington, Love Letters, Everyman's Library, page 66",
          "text": "You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase; perhaps you wouldn't even feel it.",
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          "ref": "2014 October 7, Faith Hunter, Broken Soul, Penguin",
          "text": "If there are no undumb questions, meeting adjourned.",
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      "form": "undumbed",
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          "ref": "1989 January 1, Michael Lombardo, Robert Eichinger, Preventing Derailment: What To Do Before It's Too Late, Center for Creative Leadership, page 12",
          "text": "One of her earlier bosses said of her: “She gives people a chance to undumb themselves—she asks lots of questions, gives careful feedback, delegates complete tasks with careful instructions.",
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          "ref": "2010 May 11, Ben Wattenberg, Values Matter Most: How Republicans, or Democrats, or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life, Simon and Schuster, page 93",
          "text": "Almost everyone knows we have dumbed down our schools and have to undumb them.",
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        {
          "ref": "2020 April 7, Richard Grossinger, Bottoming Out the Universe: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, Simon and Schuster",
          "text": "The wave is quantum entanglement, Multipersonhood, over determination, and even that doesn't begin to undumb what's going on.",
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        "to make no longer dumb."
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          "ref": "1996, Vita Sackville-West, edited by Peter Washington, Love Letters, Everyman's Library, page 66",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014 October 7, Faith Hunter, Broken Soul, Penguin",
          "text": "If there are no undumb questions, meeting adjourned.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 May 11, Ben Wattenberg, Values Matter Most: How Republicans, or Democrats, or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life, Simon and Schuster, page 93",
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        {
          "ref": "2020 April 7, Richard Grossinger, Bottoming Out the Universe: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, Simon and Schuster",
          "text": "The wave is quantum entanglement, Multipersonhood, over determination, and even that doesn't begin to undumb what's going on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "to make no longer dumb."
      ],
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