stump

stump is a 5-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
2. noun. The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
3. noun. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
4. noun. One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
5. noun. A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
6. noun. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
7. transitive verb. To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
8. transitive verb. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
9. transitive verb. To challenge; also, to nonplus.
10. transitive verb. To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.
11. noun. To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
12. noun. To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
13. intransitive verb. To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
14. noun. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

    Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox

15. noun. (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
16. noun. the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
17. noun. the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
18. verb. remove tree stumps from

    "stump a field"

19. verb. cause to be perplexed or confounded

    "This problem stumped her"

20. verb. travel through a district and make political speeches

    "the candidate stumped the Northeast"

21. verb. walk heavily

    "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots"

    Synonyms: stamp, stomp

Synonyms

ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, stamp, stomp

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stump:

sumpt, tumps

Common word forms

stumps, stumped, stumper, stumping, stumpless

Words from these letters

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