stump
/stʌmp/ verbo C2En español: no tener ni idea de cómo contestar, estar sin respuesta
- 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.
- To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- To get a batsman out stumped.
- To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
Plural stump · He/she/it stumps · Pasado stumped · Participio pasado stumped · Forma en -ing stumping
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- stump
- He/she/it
- stumps
- Pasado
- stumped
- Participio pasado
- stumped
- Forma en -ing
- stumping
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
On one corner of this was stuck the stump of a red wax candle.
In her right hand was found the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box.”
Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa, the night thief, who could slip along the branches as quietly as moss grows, and steal away the strongest monkey that ever lived; of old Kaa, who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them.
By it he laid the box of matches and the stump of a candle.
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