Stumped

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stump \Stump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Stumping}.]
     1. To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
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              Around the stumped top soft moss did grow. --Dr. H.


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     2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something
        fixed; to stub. [Colloq.]
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     3. To challenge; also, to nonplus. [Colloq.]
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     4. To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering
        purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See {To go
        on the stump}, under {Stump}, n. [Colloq. U.S.]
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     5. (Cricket)
        (a) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the
            bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is
            defending while he is off his allotted ground; --
            sometimes with out. --T. Hughes.
        (b) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
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                  A herd of boys with clamor bowled,
                  And stumped the wicket.           --Tennyson.
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     {To stump it}.
        (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang]
            --Ld. Lytton.
        (b) To make electioneering speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "stumped":
     addled, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill,
     at an impasse, baffled, bamboozled, beat, bewildered, buffaloed,
     confounded, dazed, floored, fuddled, in a dilemma, in suspense,
     licked, muddled, mystified, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, perplexed,
     puzzled, stuck, thrown