stumped

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  Rhymes: -ʌmpt

stumped (comparative more stumped, superlative most stumped)

1. (informal) Perplexed, confused.

   Synonyms: at a loss, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confused, flummoxed, lost, nonplussed, perplexed, puzzled

   I'm stumped by this question.

   • 2018 December 28, Catherine Shoard, “Keira Knightley: 'I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick”, in The Guardian‎:

     So if women don’t come on flirty or maternal, she thinks, some men get stumped.

2. (cricket, of a batsman, not comparable) out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.
3. (slang, archaic) Done for; bankrupt or ruined.
   • 1873, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 11, page 577:

     "Why, Walsher," said Mr. Stubber, "how many times a day do you rub your face with a brass candlestick? Why, I lent you a pony when you were stumped, and you carried off a cool hundred."

• (done for, ruined): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

stumped

1. simple past and past participle of stump