stumped

Etymology

adj

  1. (informal) Perplexed, confused.
    I'm stumped by this question.
    So if women don’t come on flirty or maternal, she thinks, some men get stumped. 2018-12-28, 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
  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.
    "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." 1873, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 11, page 577

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of stump

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