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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
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- 1noun
The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
- 4noun
One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
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.
- 7transitive verb
To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
- 8transitive verb
To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
- 9transitive verb
To challenge; also, to nonplus.
- 10transitive 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.
- 11noun
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.
- 12noun
To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
- 13intransitive verb
To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
- 14noun
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- 15noun
(cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- 16noun
the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- 17noun
the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- 18verb
remove tree stumps from
"stump a field"
- 19verb
cause to be perplexed or confounded
"This problem stumped her"
- 20verb
travel through a district and make political speeches
"the candidate stumped the Northeast"
- 21verb
walk heavily
"The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots"
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