stumping

To stop, confuse, or puzzle.

To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.

“This last question has me stumped.”

To campaign.

“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.

The act of somebody being stumped.