stump
UK/stʌmp/
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Midlands/stʊmp/
stump noun: the remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
Noun
stump (plural stumps)
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- Synonyms:
- stub
- The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump!'1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.
- One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A leg.
- to stir one's stumps
- 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 pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
Verb
stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)
- To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- This last question has me stumped.
- To campaign.
- He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
- Synonyms:
- campaign
- To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- Freedom was in the air this spring, when millionaire philosopher Ivan Kramberger stumped the countryside on a platform of Slovenian independence and social welfare.1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 120
- To get a batsman out stumped.
- To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
- To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with her crutches and heaving her bulk along with the obvious determination to submerge her wrongs by resorting to the gin-bottle.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150
- To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
Proper noun capitalized: Stump
Stump (plural Stumps)
- A surname.
stump meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
stump in Hindi
- स्टंप, स्टम्प
stump in Tamil
- அடிக்கட்டை, கொட்டு, குச்சம்
stump in Marathi
- स्टंप
stump in Urdu
- stump, stub
- ریشہ reśa
More languagesFewer languages
- stump in Bengali
- গুঁড়ি, অবশিষ্টাংশ
- stump in Telugu
- గురుసు gurusu
- stump in Malayalam
- കുറ്റി kuṟṟi
- stump in Kannada
- ಕೂಳೆ, ಕುಳೆ, ಕುತ್ತಿ, ಗುತ್ತಿ
- stump in Punjabi
- ਸਟੰਪ
- stump in Gujarati
- સ્ટંપ sṭamp
- stump in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟମ୍ପ, ଷ୍ଟମ୍ପ୍
- stump in Sanskrit
- स्थाणु sthāṇú
- stump in Assamese
- মুঢ়া murha
- stump in Nepali
- स्टम्प
- stump in Tagalog
- tuod
- stump in Arabic
- جُذْمُور juḏmūr, كُنَّاشَة kunnāša
Examples of stump in a sentence
- The harsh desert wind and sand had chewed the stump into ragged strips of wood.
- England still have a chance of winning tomorrow if they can get India out before stumps today.
- Jim stumped up for the cinema tickets, but I paid for the coffees afterwards.
Synonyms of stump
Forms of stump
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stumps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stumps |
| present participle | stumping |
| past participle | stumped |
| past | stumped |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | stumpest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | stumpedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | stumpeth |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Stumps |
Origin of stump
From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Displaced native Old English stofn. Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.
Words formed from stump
- beyond the black stump
- black stump
- bleeding stump
- call it stumps
- chopping stump
- dumb as a stump
- fourth stump
- gump stump
- gump-stump
- leg stump
- middle stump
- off stump
- on the stump
- pull up stumps
- restump
- rump and stump
- stir one's stumps
- stumpage
- stump and rump
- stump cam
- stump camera
- stump cutter
- stump detective
- stump dump
- stumpery
- stump grinder
- stumphole
- stumpie
- stumpify
- stumpish
- stump it
- stumpitis
- stumpland
- stumpless
- stumplike
- stumpling
- stumpnose
- stump orator
- stump out
- stump powder
- stumps
- stump speech
- stump stabber
- stump-tailed macaque
- stump tracery
- stump-water
- stumpwork
- stumpy
- take the stump
- this side of the black stump
- tree stump
- treestump
- up a stump
- up the stump
- unstumpable
Phrases with stump
Words that rhyme with stump
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Questions about stump
- What does stump mean?
- Stump means the remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- What is stump in Hindi?
- Stump in Hindi is स्टंप, स्टम्प. See Stump meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is stump?
- Stump can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce stump?
- Stump is pronounced /stʌmp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of stump?
- The plural of stump is stumps.
Words near stump in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stump (page history and authors); Stump (page history and authors); stump (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stump (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stump (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ریشہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); stump (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గురుసు (Telugu) (page history and authors); കുറ്റി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); stump (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stump (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); સ્ટંપ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); stump (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); स्थाणु (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); stump (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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