Definition of "stumped" [stumped]

• Perplexed, at a loss. (adjective)
• To be out by being stumped by the wicket keeper. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of stump. (verb)

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• "But the word stumped him—he had evidently never heard it before."
• "In the meantime there was a noise outside, and in stumped an elderly woman."
• "One thing I like to do when I’m stumped is stop writing!"