strike dumb

1. 1.

   render speechless, as by surprising or shocking

   “we were struck dumb by the candidate's announcement”

   Broaderaffect

Questions about strike dumb

What does strike dumb mean?

strike dumb means "render speechless, as by surprising or shocking".

Is strike dumb a common word?

strike dumb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.