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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
stump
stump [stump stumps stumped stumping] noun, verb BrE [stʌmp] NAmE [stʌmp]
noun
1. countable the bottom part of a tree left in the ground after the rest has fallen or been cut down
2. countable the end of sth or the part that is left after the main part has been cut, broken off or worn away
•the stump of a pencil
3. countable the short part of sb's leg or arm that is left after the rest has been cut off
4. countable, usually plural (in ↑cricket)one of the set of three vertical wooden sticks (called the stumps) that form the ↑wicket
•the leg/middle/off stump
•The ball went past the batsman and hit the stumps.
5. the stumpsingular (informal, especially NAmE)the fact of a politician before an election going to different places and trying to get people's support by making speeches
•The senator gave his standard stump speech.
•politicians on the stump
see stir your stumps at ↑stir v.
Word Origin:
Middle English (denoting a part of a limb remaining after an amputation): from Middle Low German stump(e) or Middle Dutch stomp. The early sense of the verb was ‘stumble’.
Example Bank:
•politicians on the stump
Derived: ↑stump up ▪ ↑stump up something
verb
1. transitive, usually passive ~ sb (informal)to ask sb a question that is too difficult for them to answer or give them a problem that they cannot solve
Syn: ↑baffle
•I'm stumped. I don't know how they got here before us.
•Farmers are aware of the problem but are stumped by what to do about it.
•Kate was stumped for words (= unable to answer).
2. intransitive + adv./prep. to walk in a noisy, heavy way, especially because you are angry or upset
Syn: ↑stomp
•He stumped off, muttering under his breath.
3. intransitive, transitive + adv./prep. | ~ sth (NAmE)to travel around making political speeches, especially before an election
•He stumped around the country trying to build up support.
4. transitive ~ sb (in ↑cricket)to put a ↑batsman out of the game by touching the ↑stumps with the ball when he or she is out of the area in which the ball can be hit
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
Middle English (denoting a part of a limb remaining after an amputation): from Middle Low German stump(e) or Middle Dutch stomp. The early sense of the verb was ‘stumble’.
Example Bank:
•At first I was stumped by the question.
•His condition has stumped experts throughout Europe and the US.
•I'm stumped. I don't know how they got here before us.
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