What is "dumbing"

Usage examples of "dumbing".

In the eighties, American concepts of dumbing down horror provided grim new benchmarks, reaching even lower.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

You can choose to expose the wackos in the industry who are dumbing down our schools with bogus textbooks.

You're dumbing down potential sculptors, architects, scientists, doctors, teachers.