stumped

/S T AH1 M P T/

verb

1
To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
2
To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
“This last question has me stumped.”
3
To campaign.
“He’s been stumping for that reform for months.”
syn:campaign
4
To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
5
(of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
6
To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
7
To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
8
To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
9
To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

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adjective

1
Perplexed, at a loss.
“I'm stumped by this question.”
syn:at a loss baffled bemused bewildered confused flummoxed
2
(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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