1
as in shuffles
to move heavily or clumsily
the seemingly endless parade finally ended, and the drummers and tuba players stumped wearily to their buses
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as in dares
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
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Recent Examples of stumps
Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
This approach addresses the transparent bottle problem that stumps traditional systems.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stumps
Verb
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Because global air travel shuffles millions of people around the world daily, an outbreak of a very contagious disease anywhere can become a threat everywhere.—
Amy E. Stambach,
The Conversation,
12 Aug. 2025
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With Noni Madueke doubled up on out wide, Zubimendi shuffles backwards to receive the pass, and then fires a pass into Martin Odegaard, breaking the first two lines of the opposition’s 4-4-2 defensive block.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
11 Aug. 2025
Verb
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After Knull’s fall, Hela is imprisoned in the An'Hay-Zhidi, where Dizang—Devil of the Eighth City—dares her to atone for her sins.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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When the murder of 100,000 people, many of them women and children, is mentioned or denounced, or when someone dares to use terms such as genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing or similar, most people choose to take issue with the characterization, quibbling over semantics.—
Uriel Kon
September 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The plasma process is also effective on waxy residues left over from other recycling methods, converting them into useful chemicals with over 80% selectivity.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Each facility has a pyrolysis reactor based on the Viking design that converts agricultural residues such as cashew hulls from area farms into biofuels and high-quality carbon credits for sale on international markets.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The guy just f****** stomps right on my face.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The Trades as a Leadership Classroom Tradespeople face complex, high stakes challenges every day.—
Dan Ringo,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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A student at the center of high-profile Supreme Court challenges to bans on transgender athletes on female sports teams wants the court to drop her case.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The dejected actor stumbles over to a marketplace to buy a drink, shoplift a lighter, and strike out with a lottery ticket.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
3 Sep. 2025
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Every founder stumbles—some in a very public fashion.—
Samantha Reynolds,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The alum then clumps the smaller, suspended fats together for easy removal.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Crafted nearly a century ago, the home is filled with eye-catching vestiges of the past alongside modern upgrades.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
8 Sep. 2025
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The tracks, gun-barrel straight, are some of the only working vestiges of the Cape-to-Cairo railway, the 19th century British imperial boondoggle that aimed to tie the continent together from Egypt to South Africa.—
The Editors,
Outside,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Stumps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stumps. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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