stumped

English

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -ʌmpt

Adjective

stumped (comparative more stumped, superlative most stumped)

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."

Translations

baffled

• Amharic: እንደማይመለከትህ (inidemayimeleketihi)
• Basque: nahasturik
• Catalan: tret (ca)
• Dutch: perplex (nl)
• Esperanto: trompus
• French: perplexe (fr) m or f
• Georgian: დაბნეულები (dabneulebi)
• Hawaiian: kumu
• Italian: perplesso (it) m, perplessa (it) f
• Latin: perspicuum fecerit
• Maori: hanepī, pōnitiniti, pōkaku
• Navajo: tsístłʼah naayá
• Portuguese: perplexo (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zaglavila

• Spanish: perplejo (es)
• Thai: นิ่งงัน (nìng ngạn)
• Yiddish: סטאַמפּט (stampt)

in cricket

References

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

Verb

stumped

1. simple past and past participle of stump