stump
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- Rhymes: -ʌmp
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stump (plural stumps)
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (politics) The place where a campaign takes place.
- (politics) An occasion at which the campaign takes place.
- (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
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remains of something that has been cut off
politics: place where campaigning takes place
politics: act of campaigning
drawing: artist's tool
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to stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)
- (intransitive) to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- This last question has me stumped.
- (intransitive) to campaign
- He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped
- (intransitive) to walk heavily or clumsily
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to campaign
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