stump
/stʌmp/ verbe C2En français : coller, laisser perplexe, faire campagne
- 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.
Pluriel stump · He/she/it stumps · Prétérit stumped · Participe passé stumped · Forme en -ing stumping
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- stump
- He/she/it
- stumps
- Prétérit
- stumped
- Participe passé
- stumped
- Forme en -ing
- stumping
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
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.
“‘There used to be a very old one over yonder but it was struck by lightning ten years ago, and we cut down the stump.’
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.”
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