stub

stub is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.
2. noun. A log; a block; a blockhead.
3. noun. The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
4. noun. A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.
5. noun. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
6. noun. A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
7. transitive verb. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.
8. transitive verb. To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
9. transitive verb. To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.
10. noun. the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

    Synonyms: butt

11. noun. the part of a check that is retained as a record

    Synonyms: counterfoil

12. noun. a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
13. noun. a small piece

    "a nub of coal"

    "a stub of a pencil"

    Synonyms: nub

14. noun. a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
15. verb. strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object

    "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken"

16. verb. clear of weeds by uprooting them

    "stub a field"

17. verb. extinguish by crushing

    "stub out your cigarette now"

18. verb. pull up (weeds) by their roots

Synonyms

butt, counterfoil, nub

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stub:

bust, buts, tubs

Common word forms

stubs, stuber, stubbed, stubber, stubbing

Words from these letters

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