stumped

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)
    Rhymes: -ʌmpt

Adjective[edit]

stumped (comparative more stumped, superlative most stumped)

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  1. (informal) Perplexed, confused.
    Synonyms: at a loss, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confused, flummoxed, lost, nonplussed, perplexed, puzzled
    I'm stumped by this question.
    • 2018 December 28, Catherine Shoard, “Keira Knightley: 'I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick”, in The Guardian[1]:
      So if women don’t come on flirty or maternal, she thinks, some men get stumped.
  2. (cricket, of a batsman, not comparable) out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.
  3. (slang, archaic) Done for; bankrupt or ruined.
    • 1873, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 11, page 577:
      "Why, Walsher," said Mr. Stubber, "how many times a day do you rub your face with a brass candlestick? Why, I lent you a pony when you were stumped, and you carried off a cool hundred."

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  • (done for, ruined): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Verb[edit]

stumped

  1. simple past and past participle of stump