- completely at a loss; perplexed or nonplussed: The stumped officer could only stare at the strange object, trying to figure out what it might be.
- reduced to a stump; truncated; lopped: Bowser was a small dog with a stumped tail.These hills are in fact the stumped remains of mountains millions of years old.
- stubbed, as one’s toe: At the talk, someone in the audience joked, "A stumped toe is all I need as proof that matter is real!"
- cleared of stumps: It was looking more and more impossible to get the recently cleared and stumped field ready for planting by April 26.
- (of a crayon drawing, pencil rendering, etc.) toned or modified by means of a stump, a blunt-tipped tool made of tightly rolled paper, leather, etc.: A stumped drawing by Willem de Kooning, almost rubbed out, inspired our interest in the process of reproduction.
- the simple past tense and past participle of stump.
