stumping
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.”
- 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.
Synonyms
noun
- 1
The act of somebody being stumped.
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