stumping

verb

  1. 1

    To stop, confuse, or puzzle.

  2. 2

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

    This last question has me stumped.
  3. 3

    To campaign.

    He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
  4. 4

    To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.

  5. 5

    (of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.

  6. 6

    To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).

  7. 7

    To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.

  8. 8

    To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.

  9. 9

    To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

Synonyms

noun

  1. 1

    The act of somebody being stumped.

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