Stump
noun
The remainder of a removed tree left in the ground.
The gardener had trouble removing the tree stump from the ground.
Often appears as...
- remove a stump
- tree stump
verb
To puzzle, confuse someone completely.
The math problem stumped me.
Often appears as...
- stumped by a question
- stump someone
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A part of something that remains after it has been used, eaten, or destroyed.
After dinner, only a chicken stump and a few bread crumbs were left on the table.
Often appears as...
- cigarette stump
- bread stump
verb
To campaign for political office by traveling around the country to introduce oneself to voters.
The candidate stumped through the Midwest this week.
Often appears as...
- take to the stump
- on the stump
noun
The remainder of a removed tree left in the ground.
The gardener had trouble removing the tree stump from the ground.
Often appears as...
- remove a stump
- tree stump
verb
To puzzle, confuse someone completely.
The math problem stumped me.
Often appears as...
- stumped by a question
- stump someone
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A part of something that remains after it has been used, eaten, or destroyed.
After dinner, only a chicken stump and a few bread crumbs were left on the table.
Often appears as...
- cigarette stump
- bread stump
verb
To campaign for political office by traveling around the country to introduce oneself to voters.
The candidate stumped through the Midwest this week.
Often appears as...
- take to the stump
- on the stump
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Removing Difficulty
Using 'stump' to explain challenges in removing entrenched objects, not just trees.
The rusty bolts were a real stump to clear from the machine.
Pro Tip 2/2Natural Context
'Tree stump' commonly describes nature scenes or outdoor activity contexts.
Children loved playing hide and seek around the old stump.
Pro Tip 1/2Removing Difficulty
Using 'stump' to explain challenges in removing entrenched objects, not just trees.
The rusty bolts were a real stump to clear from the machine.
Pro Tip 2/2Natural Context
'Tree stump' commonly describes nature scenes or outdoor activity contexts.
Children loved playing hide and seek around the old stump.
Pro Tip 1/2Removing Difficulty
Using 'stump' to explain challenges in removing entrenched objects, not just trees.
The rusty bolts were a real stump to clear from the machine.
Pro Tip 2/2Natural Context
'Tree stump' commonly describes nature scenes or outdoor activity contexts.
Children loved playing hide and seek around the old stump.
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Wild Beavers Return...
obviously you can see here there's tree stumps and so on around us and they do fell a certain number of trees which is allows a lot of light to get into you get more undergrowth and more interesting opportunities for other animals so it's kind of creating not just biodiversity it's creating structural diversity which is so important in ecology
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Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
the world they look as if they've been sculpted by some truly tormented mind this one here is less than a thousand years old they can get to be at least twice that age the woods have such high quality so full of resin but even a couple of hundred years after the tree dies the stump
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Symbiosis: A surprising...
They remember where all those seeds are. They even use landmarks on the landscape -- trees, stumps, rocks -- to triangulate to caches buried deep under the snow. What they don't go back and get, those seeds become whitebark. This symbiosis is so important to both species
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Color blind or color...
they brought together all these scientists, and they were stumped. And the beginnings of the cure to the disease came from the most unlikely source, a dairy farmer who noticed that the milkmaids were not getting smallpox. And the smallpox vaccination is bovine-based
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Why doesn’t the Leaning...
No one knew how the tower was still standing, but the crisis was they had to solve a problem that stumped centuries of engineers, and they needed to do it fast. To understand their situation, it’s helpful to understand why the tower tilted in the first place.
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Why being invisible can...
duet Peter stumps behind the scenes meticulousness again another core trait of these Invisibles he doesn't care if anyone knows about all the details he did he just wants a great end result we're told that we need to promote ourselves and we do sometimes in
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One Man’s Mission to...
because when you threaten its life from its roots it throws off things folk basil sprouts so the exact genetic fingerprint of this stump and any other stump in this whole region is in the basil sprouts I have a real affinity for these stumps
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Meet Mick Dodge PIPE The...
land he sleeps and tree stumps like this one but he didn't always leave this kind of life owned a couple of houses and cars and all that kind of life and one day I just grabbed my gear and just walked on back here in the mountains I
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Alaska Brown Bear...
over the last 20 years roads have cut deep into this once virgin wilderness and timber clear-cutting has turned some of the bears summer stomping grounds into stump fields as development extends further
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OR Finalist PIPE National...
the world's shortest river stumped the world's shortest river is the D river and it's located right here
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Wild Beavers Return...
obviously you can see here there's tree stumps and so on around us and they do fell a certain number of trees which is allows a lot of light to get into you get more undergrowth and more interesting opportunities for other animals so it's kind of creating not just biodiversity it's creating structural diversity which is so important in ecology
Video examples
Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
the world they look as if they've been sculpted by some truly tormented mind this one here is less than a thousand years old they can get to be at least twice that age the woods have such high quality so full of resin but even a couple of hundred years after the tree dies the stump
Video examples
Symbiosis: A surprising...
They remember where all those seeds are. They even use landmarks on the landscape -- trees, stumps, rocks -- to triangulate to caches buried deep under the snow. What they don't go back and get, those seeds become whitebark. This symbiosis is so important to both species
Video examples
Color blind or color...
they brought together all these scientists, and they were stumped. And the beginnings of the cure to the disease came from the most unlikely source, a dairy farmer who noticed that the milkmaids were not getting smallpox. And the smallpox vaccination is bovine-based
Video examples
Why doesn’t the Leaning...
No one knew how the tower was still standing, but the crisis was they had to solve a problem that stumped centuries of engineers, and they needed to do it fast. To understand their situation, it’s helpful to understand why the tower tilted in the first place.
Video examples
Why being invisible can...
duet Peter stumps behind the scenes meticulousness again another core trait of these Invisibles he doesn't care if anyone knows about all the details he did he just wants a great end result we're told that we need to promote ourselves and we do sometimes in
Video examples
One Man’s Mission to...
because when you threaten its life from its roots it throws off things folk basil sprouts so the exact genetic fingerprint of this stump and any other stump in this whole region is in the basil sprouts I have a real affinity for these stumps
Video examples
Meet Mick Dodge PIPE The...
land he sleeps and tree stumps like this one but he didn't always leave this kind of life owned a couple of houses and cars and all that kind of life and one day I just grabbed my gear and just walked on back here in the mountains I
Video examples
Alaska Brown Bear...
over the last 20 years roads have cut deep into this once virgin wilderness and timber clear-cutting has turned some of the bears summer stomping grounds into stump fields as development extends further
Video examples
OR Finalist PIPE National...
the world's shortest river stumped the world's shortest river is the D river and it's located right here
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Italo Calvino
Italian Journalist
Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.
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William Gilbert
British Composer
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
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Jennifer McMahon
American Novelist
Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
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Ana Navarro
American Critic
Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.
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Yuzvendra Chahal
Even regular keepers miss stumping chances and miss catches. These things happen.
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Nikki Cox
American Actress
If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.
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Jasprit Bumrah
Indian Athlete
When you see the stumps flying, that's the best feeling.
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Jonathan Miles
I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint.
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Murray Walker
English Entertainer
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
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Italo Calvino
Italian Journalist
Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.
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William Gilbert
British Composer
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
Quote examples
Jennifer McMahon
American Novelist
Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
Quote examples
Henry Rollins
American Musician
I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
Quote examples
Ana Navarro
American Critic
Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.
Quote examples
Yuzvendra Chahal
Even regular keepers miss stumping chances and miss catches. These things happen.
Quote examples
Nikki Cox
American Actress
If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.
Quote examples
Jasprit Bumrah
Indian Athlete
When you see the stumps flying, that's the best feeling.
Quote examples
Jonathan Miles
I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint.
Quote examples
Murray Walker
English Entertainer
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
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