Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🏷️ To nickname 🎧 A remixed track 🎤 To add new voices ⚔️ To make a knight 🏆 A win
to dub

to dub

11 5.3
To replace a film or TV soundtrack with one in another language
  • verb
  • /dʌb/
translation icon : doblar
  • The movie was dubbed into Russian, with one male voice assuming all the roles.
  • dub a film
  • dub into Spanish

And also we don't in Portugal, we don't really dub films.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • The local channels provide nationally produced programs, other Latin American/regional productions, and United States programs dubbed into Spanish.

    Academic text (1991)

  • In Rome, they dub every word of every picture.

    Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

  • We can video the kid, then dub it in English.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The tape was a problem; he didn't know where to get it dubbed on short notice.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • All broadcasts are dubbed in Spanish and are closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The film was dubbed into Spanish, allowing a wider audience to enjoy the story.

  • After filming, the actors dubbed their lines in multiple languages for the international release.

  • For the movie's debut in other countries, they dubbed the original soundtrack with local talent.

Synonyms

to dub the film
vsto dub
4.6

Replace the voices in a film with speech in another language

replaces the entire original audio track rather than only spoken dialogue

Phrasal Verbs

to dub the film
4.6

Replace the voices in a film with speech in another language

Compounds

English dub
1 3.4

An audio track where the actors speak in English instead of the original language

rub-a-dub
9.9

A steady repeating drum sound you hear at parades

Surface Forms

dub infinitive
dubbed past
dubbed past participle
dubbing present participle
dubs third person singular

Etymology

Dub for putting a new voice on a film comes from shortening the word double, because technicians made a second voice track to replace the original. So to dub a movie is to add or replace its soundtrack with a new language or voice.