- 1dub somebody + noun to give someone or something a particular name, often in a humorous or critical way The Belgian actor Jean Claude Van Damme has been dubbed “Muscles from Brussels.”
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- 2dub something (into something) to replace the original speech in a movie or television program with words in another language an American movie dubbed into Italian compare subtitle
dub
verbNAmE//dʌb//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they dub he / she / it dubs
past simple dubbed
-ing form dubbing
Check pronunciation: dub