verdummen meaning and definition in german
Verb
Frequency: 
- with "haben" to influence (someone) such that they become stupid and uncritically accept ideas and arguments
- with "sein" to become stupid and uncritical
Example
Es beweist aber nebenbei, daß sich die Pfaffen in der schmachvollen Ignoranz, mit der sie die Menschheit verdummen möchten, mir Wollust selber herumsielen. «And I can 't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them."OP307940