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comparative more stumped, superlative most stumped
(informal) Perplexed, confused. quotations examples
So if women don’t come on flirty or maternal, she thinks, some men get stumped.
2018 December 28, Catherine Shoard, “Keira Knightley: 'I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick”, in The Guardian
(cricket, of a batsman, not comparable) out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease. examples
(slang, archaic) Done for; bankrupt or ruined. quotations
"Why, Walsher," said Mr. Stubber, "how many times a day do you rub your face with a brass candlestick? Why, I lent you a pony when you were stumped, and you carried off a cool hundred."
1873, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 11, page 577
simple past and past participle of stump examples