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stump

[ US /ˈstəmp/ ]
[ UK /stˈʌmp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
  2. the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
  3. the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
  4. (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
VERB
  1. walk heavily
    The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots
  2. cause to be perplexed or confounded
    This problem stumped her
  3. travel through a district and make political speeches
    the candidate stumped the Northeast
  4. remove tree stumps from
    stump a field
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How To Use stump In A Sentence

  • Yovich was next to go, bowled for four by a beauty that clipped the top of off stump as it swung away from him.
  • Zaheer bowled a good length in the final overs and got one right in the blockhole to shatter the stumps of Sami and after that Moin was clean bowled by Balaji and India won by 40 runs with Pakistan allout for 253. Archive 2004-03-01
  • She was stumped by a question that asked her to construct a triangle with given angles and sides. Times, Sunday Times
  • The front was embossed with a teal hummingbird sitting on a tie-dyed tree stump.
  • Sometimes crime investigation is so difficult, like the real stumper for Fort Worth, Texas, detectives.
  • On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing. Back to Methuselah
  • Edwards gave a speech which drew very heavily on his stump speech.
  • Vic Craven edged a ball on to his stumps to make the former England star only the fifth bowler currently playing anywhere in the world to have joined the elite club.
  • Haley walked into the kitchen and two minutes later Trevor came stumping into the kitchen.
  • Trott tried to whip Lee to leg, and the ball deflected off his thigh pad and back onto the stumps without dislodging the bails. Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
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