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1 to move heavily or clumsily the seemingly endless parade finally ended, and the drummers and tuba players stumped wearily to their buses Synonyms of stump barge, clomp, clump, flog [British], flounder, galumph, lump, plod, pound, scuff, scuffle, shamble, shuffle, slog, slough, stamp, stomp, stumble, lumber, tramp, tromp, trudgeWords Related to stump drag, flop, haul; blunder, careen, dodder, lurch, reel, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, waddle, weave, wobble (also wabble)Near Antonyms of stump drift, float, hang, hover, poise, waftAntonyms of stump breeze, coast, glide, slide, waltz, whisk
2 to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat when my grandfather was a kid, he and his friends would stump one another to dive into the local swimming hole Synonyms of stump dare, defy, challengeWords Related to stump beard, brave, brazen, breast, confront, face, outbrave, outface
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