stumped
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Definitions ofstumped
- To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
Example: "This last question has me stumped."
- To campaign.
Synonyms: campaign
Example: "He’s been stumping for that reform for months."
- To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- Perplexed, at a loss.
Synonyms: "at a loss", baffled, bemused, bewildered, confused, flummoxed, lost, nonplussed, perplexed, puzzled
Example: "I'm stumped by this question."
- (of a batsman) out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.
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