stumpify

Verb

stumpify (third-person singular simple present stumpifies, present participle stumpifying, simple past and past participle stumpified)

1. (transitive) To turn into a stump.
   • I sympathize in your resentment against the canonical Dons, who stumpify the heads of those good green people, beneath whose friendly shade so many of your happiest hours have glided away, — but they defy them; let them stumpify as much as they please, time will repair the mischief, — their verdant...1861, Winthrop Sargent, The Life and Career of Major John André, page 20
   • They are some of the finest old stumpified staring trees I ever saw, with a small waterfall, rocks of all shapes &c &c.1939, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, The letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth
2. (transitive) To baffle; to completely puzzle.
   • I did make sure my PALcode was above the required minimum but other than that, I have been stumpified.2002 October 11, LMcC, “Trying to install OVMS 7.0 on Digital Alphaserver 1000 4/266”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet)
   • That question stumpified me.2011, AJ Stern, Principal for the Day, →ISBN