stump

1. 1.

   cause to be perplexed or confounded

   “This problem stumped her”

   Synonymsmix up

   Broaderperplex
2. 2.

   walk heavily

   “The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots”

   Synonymsstompstamp

   Broaderwalk
3. 3.

   travel through a district and make political speeches

   “the candidate stumped the Northeast”

   Broadercampaign
4. 4.

   remove tree stumps from

   “stump a field”

   Broaderclear

Other forms of stump

plural

stumps·

past tense

stumped·

present participle

stumping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stump

What does stump mean?

stump means "the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stump?

stump has 1 syllable: stump. In IPA it is /ˈstʌmp/.

What is another word for stump?

Close synonyms include tree stump, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stump a common word?

stump is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.