Synonyms of the word stump


STUMPAMAZE - AMBO - BAFFLE - BEAT - BEWILDER - CAMPAIGN - CLEAR - DAIS - DUMBFOUND - FLUMMOX - GET - GRAVEL - MYSTIFY - NONPLUS - PERPLEX - PLATFORM - PODIUM - POSE - POST - PULPIT - PUZZLE - ROSTRUM - RUN - SOAPBOX - STAMP - STICK - STOMP - STUPEFY - VEX - WALK

stump

  • n. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
  • n. (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
  • n. (figuratively) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner…
  • n. (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding…
  • n. (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal,…
  • n. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
  • n. (slang, humorous) A leg.
  • n. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers…
  • n. A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
  • v. (transitive) to stop, confuse, or puzzle.
  • v. (intransitive) to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
  • v. (intransitive) to campaign.
  • v. (transitive, US, colloquial) to travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering…
  • v. (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) to bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
  • v. (intransitive) to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.

amaze

  • v. (obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.
  • v. (obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
  • v. (obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.
  • v. To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
  • n. (now poetic) Amazement, astonishment.

ambo

  • n. A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox,…
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
  • n. (informal) An ambulance driver.
  • n. (informal) An ambulance.

baffle

  • v. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
  • v. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
  • v. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
  • v. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
  • v. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
  • n. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is…
  • n. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
  • n. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

beat

  • n. A stroke; a blow.
  • n. A pulsation or throb.
  • n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
  • n. A rhythm.
  • n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
  • n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
  • n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
  • n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
  • n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
  • n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
  • n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
  • n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
  • n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
  • n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
  • n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
  • v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
  • v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
  • v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
  • v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
  • v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
  • v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
  • v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
  • v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
  • v. To tread, as a path.
  • v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  • v. To be in agitation or doubt.
  • v. To make a sound when struck.
  • v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
  • v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
  • v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
  • adj. (US slang) exhausted.
  • adj. dilapidated, beat up.
  • adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
  • adj. (slang) boring.
  • adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
  • n. A beatnik.

bewilder

  • v. (transitive) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
  • v. (transitive) To disorientate someone.

campaign

  • n. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
  • n. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
  • n. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
  • v. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
  • v. (transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.

clear

  • adj. Transparent in colour.
  • adj. Bright, not dark or obscured.
  • adj. Free of obstacles.
  • adj. Without clouds.
  • adj. (meteorology) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
  • adj. Free of ambiguity or doubt.
  • adj. Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
  • adj. (figuratively) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
  • adj. (of a soup) Without a thickening ingredient.
  • adj. Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
  • adj. (Scientology) Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
  • adj. Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
  • adj. Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
  • adj. Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
  • adj. Unmixed; entirely pure.
  • adj. Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
  • adj. Without diminution; in full; net.
  • adv. All the way; entirely.
  • adv. Not near something or touching it.
  • adv. free (or separate) from others.
  • adv. (obsolete) In a clear manner; plainly.
  • v. (transitive) To remove obstructions or impediments from.
  • v. (ergative) To become freed from obstructions.
  • v. (transitive) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.
  • v. (transitive) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
  • v. (transitive) To pass without interference; to miss.
  • v. (intransitive) To become clear.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that…
  • v. (transitive, business) To earn a profit of; to net.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
  • v. To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
  • v. To obtain a clearance.
  • v. (sports) To defend by hitting (or kicking, throwing, heading etc.) the ball (or puck) from the defending…
  • v. To fell all trees of a forest.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at…
  • n. (carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest…
  • n. (cryptology) State of being unenciphered. (In the clear: Not enciphered.).

dais

  • n. A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy;…
  • n. (historical, northern Britain) A bench, a settle, a pew.
  • n. (obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.

dumbfound

  • v. (transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.

flummox

  • v. To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.

get

  • v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To receive.
  • v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • v. (copulative) To become.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do.
  • v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  • v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
  • v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  • v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  • v. (transitive) To getter.
  • v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  • v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
  • v. (euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. Lineage.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • n. Something gained.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A git.
  • n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

gravel

  • n. (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
  • n. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
  • n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  • n. (uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the…
  • v. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
  • v. To puzzle or annoy.
  • v. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
  • v. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • v. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

mystify

  • v. (transitive) To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.

nonplus

  • n. A state of perplexity or bewilderment.
  • v. (transitive) to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox.

perplex

  • v. (transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
  • v. (transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
  • adj. (obsolete) intricate; difficult.

platform

  • n. A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
  • n. A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion, a tribune.
  • n. A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
  • n. (figuratively) Something that allows an enterprise to advance; a foundation or stage.
  • n. (automotive) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
  • n. (computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific…
  • n. (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
  • n. (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
  • n. (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
  • n. (travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
  • n. (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform.
  • v. (transitive) To place on a platform.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
  • v. (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform.

podium

  • n. A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit.
  • n. (proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly.
  • n. (sports and other competitions) A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results…
  • n. (sports) A result amongst the best three at a competition.
  • n. A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
  • v. (sports, colloquial) To finish in the top three at an event or competition.

pose

  • n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
  • v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
  • v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
  • n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
  • n. Affectation.
  • v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
  • v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
  • v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

post

  • n. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post.
  • n. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
  • n. A pole in a battery.
  • n. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
  • n. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
  • n. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
  • n. (sports) A goalpost.
  • n. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers;…
  • v. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
  • v. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
  • v. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
  • v. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
  • v. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).
  • n. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility…
  • n. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of…
  • n. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such…
  • n. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
  • n. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
  • n. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person…
  • n. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum.
  • n. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
  • n. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line…
  • n. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
  • n. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
  • v. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
  • v. To travel quickly; to hurry.
  • v. (Britain) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
  • v. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially…
  • v. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
  • adv. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly.
  • adv. Sent via the postal service.
  • n. An assigned station; a guard post.
  • n. An appointed position in an organization, job.
  • v. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
  • v. To assign to a station; to set; to place.
  • prep. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
  • n. (film, informal) Post-production.

pulpit

  • n. A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands to conduct the…
  • n. A desk or platform for an orator or public speaker.
  • n. (nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred…
  • n. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit.

puzzle

  • n. Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
  • n. A game for one person that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
  • n. A crossword puzzle.
  • n. A jigsaw puzzle.
  • n. A riddle.
  • n. (archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
  • n. The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
  • v. (transitive) To perplex (someone).
  • v. To make intricate; to entangle.

rostrum

  • n. A dais, pulpit, or similar platform for a speaker, conductor, or other performer.
  • n. A platform for a film or television camera.
  • n. The projecting prow of a rowed warship, such as a trireme.
  • n. (zoology) The beak.
  • n. (zoology) The beak-shaped projection on the head of insects such as weevils.
  • n. (zoology) The snout of a dolphin.
  • n. (anatomy) The oral or nasal region of a human used for anatomical location (i.e. rostral).

run

  • v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
  • v. (fluids) To flow.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  • v. (social) To carry out an activity.
  • v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  • v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
  • v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  • v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  • v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
  • v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  • v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
  • v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  • v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  • v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
  • v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
  • v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • v. To have growth or development.
  • v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
  • v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
  • v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
  • n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  • n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
  • n. A pleasure trip.
  • n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  • n. Migration (of fish).
  • n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  • n. A (regular) trip or route.
  • n. The route taken while running or skiing.
  • n. The distance sailed by a ship.
  • n. A voyage.
  • n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  • n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
  • n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  • n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  • n. A trial.
  • n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
  • n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
  • n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
  • n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
  • n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  • n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
  • n. Any sudden large demand for something.
  • n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  • n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
  • n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  • n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
  • n. (cricket) A point scored.
  • n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
  • n. Unrestricted use of.
  • n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  • n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  • n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
  • n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
  • n. A pair or set of millstones.
  • n. (video games) A playthrough.
  • n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
  • n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
  • n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
  • n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
  • adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  • adj. Cast in a mould.
  • adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  • adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

soapbox

  • n. (literally) A crate for packing soap.
  • n. (figuratively) Any physical or media platform which gives prominence to the person on it and the views…
  • n. (figuratively) A talk about one's pet topic (or the topic itself), especially when only tangentially relevant…
  • n. A soapbox car.
  • v. To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox.

stamp

  • n. An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
  • n. An indentation or imprint made by stamping.
  • n. A device for stamping designs.
  • n. A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters…
  • n. A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other costs such as…
  • n. (slang, figuratively) A tattoo.
  • n. (slang) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
  • v. (intransitive) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive) To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive) To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot…
  • v. (transitive) To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
  • v. (transitive) To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
  • v. (transitive) To apply postage stamps to.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To mark; to impress.

stick

  • n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
  • n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
  • n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
  • n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
  • n. (sports) A stick-like item.
  • n. (sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically.
  • n. (slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking,…
  • n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
  • n. A measure.
  • v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
  • n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
  • n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
  • n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
  • v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
  • v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
  • v. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
  • v. (intransitive) To persist.
  • v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
  • v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
  • v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
  • v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
  • v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
  • v. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
  • v. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
  • v. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
  • v. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
  • v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
  • v. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
  • v. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
  • v. (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by…
  • v. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
  • v. (transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
  • adj. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
  • n. (Britain, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.

stomp

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To trample heavily.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
  • n. A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step.
  • n. The jazz music for this dance.

stupefy

  • v. To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.

vex

  • v. (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
  • v. (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
  • v. (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

walk

  • v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
  • v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
  • v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
  • v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
  • v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
  • v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
  • v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
  • v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
  • v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
  • v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
  • v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
  • v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
  • n. A trip made by walking.
  • n. A distance walked.
  • n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
  • n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
  • n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
  • n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
  • n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
  • n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
  • n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
  • n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
  • n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
  • n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

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