stumpest

Verb

stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)

1. (informal, transitive) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
2. (informal, intransitive) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
   • This last question has me stumped.
3. (intransitive) To campaign.
   • He’s been stumping for that reform for months.

   Synonyms:

   campaign

4. (US, colloquial, transitive) 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
5. (transitive) To get a batsman out stumped.
6. (transitive) 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

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