Stump

Definition: Stump

Stump

Noun

1. The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled.

2. The part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed.

3. (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket.

4. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.

Verb

1. Cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her".

2. Walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow i their heavy boots".

3. Travel through a district and make political speeches; "the candidate stumped the Northeast".

4. Remove tree stumps from; "stump a field".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stump" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Medicine

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stump

Deterioration

Adjective: unimproved; (improve; ); deteriorated; Verb: altered, altered for the worse; injured; Verb: sprung; withering, spoiling; Verb: on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky.

Government

Verb: run for office, stand for office; campaign, stump; throw one's hat in the ring; announce one's candidacy.

Journey

Walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.

Painting

Pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint; (coloring matter); watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish; a, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry.

Part

Debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum.

Remainder

Noun: remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs; (dirt); refuse; (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump; alluvium.

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Speech

Speaker; Verb: spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator, oratrix, oratress; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore.

Hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech; Noun: speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate; (speak at length); speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump.

Crosswords: Stump

Danish (blunt, dull, obtuse), Norwegian (blunt), Swedish (bit, end, snippet, stub, stump, tag, tag end).

Up on a hickory stump ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; performing artist: Charlie Daniels Band)

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk. (references; author: unknown)

Stump Run (1959)

From Stump to Ship (1930)

Andy's Stump Speech (1924)

Up a Stump (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 25 Years of Deer & Deer Hunting: The Original Stump Sitters Magazine (reference)

• Beyond the Black Stump (reference)

• Bill Clinton on Stump, State, and Stage: The Rhetorical Road to the White House (reference)

• El Tronco De Arbol = the Tree Stump (Let Me Read) (reference)

• Stump House Stories (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Stump & Pump [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

On way to Station Stump. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

On the way to Station Stump after the horses gave out Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Stump of a large tree still standing though roots exposed and outstretched. At the mouth of Dividing Creek on Wye Island. This gives an indication of the extent of erosion in this area. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Firefighters inspect a stump hole for heat. Credit: USDA.

A Great Gray owl sitting in a dead tree stump. Credit: Unknown.

U.S. Army, Stark General Hospital, Charleston, SC : Physical therapist aide bandages a soldier's stump. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Men's Unit - Stump Lake. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Lieutenant Commander Maurice N. Wickendoll receives congratulations from Vice Admiral Felix B. Stump and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air John F. Floberg, after making Coral Sea's 20,000th landing, 31 August 1950. Stewardsmen in the foreground are holding a cake baked and decorated in honor of the occasion. Credit: NAVY.

With Admiral Felix B. Stump on board the sunken USS Arizona (BB-39), at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 23 November 1953. Credit: NAVY.

"Taking the stump" or Stephen in search of his mother. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

At Marignan, he now had but one stump remaining

Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter

Then a branch caught on a stump, snagged and held

Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I had borrowed other tools by this time

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Investigators previously believed that brain cells affected by amputation simply died off. They attributed sensations of pain at the site of the amputation to irritation of nerves located near the limb stump. (references)

Now, using imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists can actually visualize increased activity in the brain's cortex when an individual feels phantom pain. When study participants move the stump of an amputated limb, neurons in the brain remain dynamic and excitable. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "stump": be on the stump ♦ candle stump ♦ exarticulation stump ♦ Gastric Stump ♦ go on the stump ♦ Leg stump ♦ off stump ♦ on the stump ♦ sale at stump ♦ sale on the stump ♦ stump about ♦ stump along ♦ stump bar ♦ stump blade ♦ stump height ♦ stump in ♦ stump out ♦ stump sale ♦ stump scale ♦ stump speech ♦ stump spud ♦ stump tracery ♦ stump up ♦ take the stump ♦ To go on the stump ♦ To stump it ♦ To stump up ♦ To take the stump ♦ tree stump. Additional references.

Beginning with "stump": stump-burning, stump-kicking, stump-legged, stump-like, stump-scorched, Stump-tailed, Stump-tailed lizard.

Ending with "stump": off-stump, tree-stump.

Albanian

shulak (shout, square built, squat, stumpy, thickset), trung (body, bole, log, lump, opaque, skid, stem, stock, torso, trunk), podium politikani, hap i rëndë (clamp), cung (stub). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جدع, ‏بقية الغصن المقطوع (stub), ‏دعك (muss, rub), ‏شخص قصير بدين, ‏رجل خشبية, ‏رطم بحجر, ‏أربك (baffle, bamboozle, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bother, buffalo, confound, confuse, demoralize, discompose, disconcert, disorientate, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, floor, fluster, fox, fret, fuddle, gravel, molest, muckrake, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put out, puzzle, ravel, show up, squirm, stop, stumble, vex), ‏بتر (amputate, amputation, curtail, maim, mangle, mutilate, mutilation, resect, resection, take off, truncate), ‏الجذل أصل الشجرة, ‏مشى متثاقلا (draggle, shamble, shuffle), ‏جدعة بقية عضو بعد القطعة, ‏عقب السيجارة (stub), ‏تحد (challenge, dare, defiance, defy, gauntlet, provocation), ‏قام بجولة إنتخابية, ‏قصا (drive away, knock out, mop up, relegate, take away), ‏مشى بتثاقل (plod, trudge), ‏ألقى خطابا إنتخابيا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

очиствам от пънове, дървен крак (peg leg, timber-toe), импровизирана трибуна (soapbox), пергели (pins, stilts), предизвиквам (arouse, bring, bring on, dare, defy, elicit, engender, fly in the face of, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, induce, instigate, invite, outbrave, pick, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, shape up, sow, throw out a challenge, touch off, urge, work up), препъвам се, пън (billet, block, log, nog, stock, stub, trunk), ампутиран крайник, естомп, затруднявам (beat, complicate, embarrass, encumber, hamper, hinder, nonplus, overwhelm, put out, stick, straiten, trouble), малък молив, озадачавам (bepuzzle, bewilder, floor, flummox, hobble, intrigue, maze, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, rattle, stick, stick up for, stumble, vex), дънер (butt, kerf, log, stock, trunk), отсичам (chop, cut down, cut off, cut short, decide firmly, hew, intercept, lop, slice off, snap, strike off), угарка (butt, snipe, stub), оставям без пари, остатък от нещо (carry over), вишер, водя предизборна агитация, вървя тежко (pound), вървя тромаво (lollop), корен (radical, radix, root, stub), крака (locomotives, pins, stilts, trilbies, underpinnings), ходя пеша (leg it), размазвам с естомп, спирам развитието на (dwarf, nip, throw back), удрям се (bump, collide, hit, impinge, jar), окастрям силно. (various references)

Chinese 

樁 (item, pile, stake), 树桩. (various references)

Czech

zmást (baffle, bewilder, confound, confuse, disconcert, maze, mix up, nonplus, non-plus, obfuscate, perplex, puzzle, stick up, stupefy), vykácet, výstupek (salience), uvést do rozpakù (embarrass, perplex, puzzle), porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, stick, strike down, tumble, vanquish), pahýl (stub), pařez (butt, snag, stub), oharek (cinder, snuff, stub), kořen (radical, root), špaèek (starling, stub). (various references)

Danish

stump (blunt, dull, obtuse), stub (stem, stock, stub, stub end, stubble, tree stump, trunk), stoed (butt, impact, joint, kicking, pushing off, rail joint, shock, stem, stock, stub, throwing, trunk), stab (snag, stub), traestub (tree stump), eksartikulationsstump (exarticulation stump), amputationsstump (exarticulation stump). (various references)

Dutch

stronk (stem, stock, stub, tree stump, trunk), stomp (blunt, dull, obtuse), stobbe (stem, stock, stub, trunk), takstomp (snag, stub), boomstomp (snag, stub), amputatiestomp (exarticulation stump). (various references)

Farsi 

کوتاه قد, قطع کردن (Burst, Cross, Cut, Disconnect, Discontinue, Excise, Hew, Intercept, Leaveoff, Out, Retrench, Rupture, Traverse), گیج کردن (Astonish, Befuddle, Bemuse, Bewilder, Confound, Confuse, Daze, Distract, Fox, Fuzz, Knockdown, Muddle, Perplex, Petrify, Stun, Stupefy), ته سیگار (Snip, Stub), سنگین کنده درخت , سقوطباصدای سنگین , صدای افتادن چیزسنگین , خپله (Chubby, Dumpy, Pudgy, Rotund, Squab, Squatty), خسته وکوفته , افتادن (Drop, Fall, Keel, Lie, Prostrate, Tumble), ازپادرامده (Spent), دست پاچه شدن , بیخ وبن , بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Sunder, Whittle). (various references)

Finnish

kanto (collection, stub). (various references)

French

souche (stock, strain, stub), moignon (stub), chicot (stub). (various references)

German

Stumpf (blunt, bluntly, dull, dulled, flat, lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless, masculine, obtuse, pointless, snub, stolid, stolidly, stub, stupid, toneless, truncated, turned-up), Stummel (butt, dock, end, snag, snags, stub). (various references)

Greek 

κούτσουρο (chump, dunce, log). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשאת נאומי בחירות, להלך בכבדות (plod, shamble), להכשיל (cause failure, flunk, impede, lead astray, make err, thwart, trip, trip up), לגדום (amputate, cut, cut off, sever), זנב (appendage, butt, rear, stub, tail, tail end), גדם (amputee, one handed, stub, trunk). (various references)

Hungarian

tuskó (butt, chump, clump, log, nerd, nurd, stock, stub, trunk, yob), fatönk (log, stub, tree-stump), csikk (butt, cigarette stub, cigarette-stub, fag end, fag-end, stub), törzs (body, clan, Hull, kin, parent stock, phylum, shaft, shank, staff, stem, stock, stub, tribe, trunk), tönk (billet, butt, clog, stem, Stipe, trunk), csonk (end, snag, stub, stud). (various references)

Indonesian

tunggul. (various references)

Italian

mozzicone (butt, end, stub, tip over), ceppo (block, chunk, log, stock, stub). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

株 (share, stock), 根っこ (root, stub), 根っ子 (root, stub), 根子 (root), 切株　 (stubble), 切株 (stubble), 切り株 (stubble), 切り杭 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねっこ (root, stub), きりくい, きりかぶ (stubble), かぶ (lower part, share, singing and dancing, stock, subordinate, substructure, turnip). (various references)

Korean 

등걸. (various references)

Manx

stumpey, stumpal, cuttag (scut, wireworm), cutt, bwon (gorse stick for fire wood, staddle, stub), bun (base, basis, bottom, derivation, details, dope, end, explanation, eye of storm, foot, foundation, heart, interpretation, news, origin, original, prime, principle, raw material, root, root cause, sole, source, stem, stool, underneath), brishey (bankrupt, bankruptcy, break, breakage, burst, cash, cashier, change money, contravention, crash, decode, depose, disbar, dismiss, dismissal, failure, fracture, go back, infringement, interrupt, interruption, pick, raise, repulse, ruin, small change, violation, wane). (various references)

Pig Latin

umpstay.(various references)

Portuguese

cepo (blockhead, chunk, chunk of wood, dummy, log, stock, stub). (various references)

Romanian

strâmtora (compel, nonplus), colţ (aiguille, angle, cliff, corner, Fang, nest, nook, quoin, spot, tooth, tusk), încurca (complicate, confound, confuse, cumber, discomfit, embrangle, embroil, entangle, floor, foul, gravel, hamper, hash, hinder, intertangle, involve, jumble, maze, medley, muddle, nonplus, perplex, pile up, pose, put out, puzzle, restrain, shuffle, sputter, tangle, trouble), şchiopãta (cripple, founder, halt, hobble, limp), şontâcãi (halt, hitch, hobbling), buştean (horse-block, hub, log, lump, stub, timber, trunk), butuc (block, butt, chump, hub, log, lump, pap, snag, stock, stub, vine), încuia (close, lock, lock up, secure, stunt), ciot (gnarl, knar, knob, knot, nub, snag, stub), trunchi (block, frustrum, shaft, shank, stem, stock, stool, stub, torso, trunk), colţ de mãsea (stub), estompa (blur, subdue), muc (snuff, stub, Wick), picioare (feet, pegs, pettitoes, pin, prop), rest de dinte (stub), chiştoc. (various references)

Russian 

ставить в тупик/ пень, окурок (butt, cigarette butt, cigarette end, cigarette-end), огрызок (stub), обрубок, обломок (chip, debris, detritus, fragment, mammock, shatter, splinter, stub), пень (stub). (various references)

Scottish

seot (a short tail or stump). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbuniti (abash, addle, baffle, befuddle, bemuse, bepuzzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, distract, embarrass, faze, maze, nonplus, perplex, perturb, pose, puzzle, rattle, stick), pikavac (butt, butt: cigarette butt, cigarette end, cigarette-stub, stub), patrljak, panj (block, blockhead, log, stub), iskrčiti panjeve, govornica (hustings, platform, pulpit, rostrum), drvena noga (peg leg), držati političke govore. (various references)

Spanish

tocón (butt, snag, stub), muñón (journal, pivot). (various references)

Swedish

stubbe (stock, stub), stump (bit, end, snippet, stub, tag, tag end). (various references)

Turkish

sorularıyla şaşırtmak, seçim propagandası yapmak (electioneer, go on the stump, take the stump), kriket kale kazığı, afallatmak (amaze, astonish, astound, confuse, daze, flabbergast, floor, flummox, stun, stupefy), bacak (crural, leg, limb, paw, pin, shank, shin), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), izmarit (blotched picarel, butt, cigarette butt, cigarette end, dog end, end, fag end, pill, sea bream, stub), kök kalıntısı, küçücük kalmış parça, küçülmüş kurşunkalem, ödemek (acquit, ante, ante up, atone for, clear, come across with, defray, disburse, discharge, domicil, domicile, domiciliate, fee, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, indemnify, pay, pay for, pay in, pay out, pick up the tab, plonk down, quit, recoup, redeem, repay, retire, satisfy, settle, shell out, spring, stump up, to pay, wipe out), kafa tutmak (be obstinate, challenge, dare, oppose, stick up to), yarım parça (split), krikette hedefi vurarak oyun dışı etmek (stump out), meşin kalem, meşin kalemle çizmek, meydan okumak (beard, brave, challenge, dare, defy, fling down the gauntlet, fling down the glove, have a chip an one's shoulder, outface, tempt, throw down the gage to smb., throw down the glove), tahta bacak (peg leg, wooden leg), topallayarak yürümek, kütük (billet, block, calendar, chump, clog, enrollment, enrolment, ingot, log, logbook, record, register, registry, stock, wood block). (various references)

Turkmen 

tцссe. (various references)

Ukrainian

ставити в безвихідне становище, шкандибати (cramble, hitch, hobble, hobble along, toddle, waddle, waggle, wallow), коротун (dumpling, punch), обрубок, залишок (carry over, end, left over, relic, remainder, remains, remnant, residual, vestige, vestigium), агітувати (agitate), пень (bole, scrag, stub), дерев'яна нога. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trong tình trạng tiến lui đều khó, trong tình trạng khó xử, không thể trả lời được, con vật lùn mập bước đi lộp cộp nặng nề, bối rối (constrained, discomposedly, loss, out, sea, touched), bí. (various references)

Welsh

wystn, pwt (anything short, poke, prod), bonyn, boncyff (stock, trunk), bo+n (base, bottom, breech). (various references)

stipes. (various references)

trognon. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stump": stumpage, stumpages, stumped, stumper, stumpers, stumpier, stumpiest, stumping, stumps, stumpy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stump" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schlumpf, scump, shtum, shtup, stampa, stampf, stemp, stomb, strump, Stumpf, stup, stupp, stymp, sumpf, tsup. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tumps.

-1 letter: must, muts, puts, smut, stum, sump, tump, tups, umps.

-2 letters: mus, mut, pus, put, sum, sup, tup, ump, ups, uts.

-3 letters: mu, um, up, us, ut.

+1 letter: septum, sputum, stumps, stumpy, thumps, trumps, upmost.

+2 letters: impetus, imputes, metumps, septums, stumped, stumper, sumpter, uptimes, utopism.

+3 letters: amputees, bethumps, bumpiest, computes, crumpets, dumpiest, dumpster, humpiest, imputers, jumpiest, jumpsuit, lumpiest, matchups, optimums, outjumps, pantoums, permutes, plastrum, plumiest, plummets, plumpest, pomatums, protiums, spectrum, spumiest, strumpet, stumpage, stumpers, stumpier, stumping, sumpters, tempuras, thumpers, triumphs, trumpets, upstream, uptempos, utopisms.