stump
树桩,残端,残枝败叶,残枝
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Definitions
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- : the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- : the part of a limb of the body remaining after the rest has been cut off.
- : a part of a broken or decayed tooth left in the gum.
- : a short remnant, as of a candle; stub.
- : any basal part remaining after the main or more important part has been removed.
- : an artificial leg.
- : Usually stumps. Informal. legs: Stir your stumps and get out of here.
- : a short, stocky person.
- : a heavy step or gait, as of a wooden-legged or lame person.
- : the figurative place of political speechmaking: to go on the stump.
- : Furniture. a support for the front end of the arm of a chair, sofa, etc.Compare post.
- : a short, thick roll of paper, soft leather, or some similar material, usually having a blunt point, for rubbing a pencil, charcoal, or crayon drawing in order to achieve subtle gradations of tone in representing light and shade.
- : Cricket. each of the three upright sticks that, with the two bails laid on top of them, form a wicket.
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- : to reduce to a stump; truncate; lop.
- : to clear of stumps, as land.
- : Chiefly Southern U.S. to stub, as one's toe.
- : to nonplus, embarrass, or render completely at a loss: This riddle stumps me.
- : to challenge or dare to do something.
- : to make political campaign speeches to or in: to stump a state.
- : Cricket. to put out by knocking down a stump or by dislodging a bail with the ball held in the hand at a moment when the batsman is off his ground.
- : to tone or modify by means of a stump.
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- : to walk heavily or clumsily, as if with a wooden leg: The captain stumped across the deck.
- : to make political campaign speeches; electioneer.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
This woman turned her tree stump into a Little Free Library fit for magical elves.
He winds his way through a stump speech with the same inflections and cadences of a Southern preacher.
Once you’re confident you can avoid rocks and stumps, there’s no need to delay the season further.
Prop it up in the fork of a tree or set it on a rock, stump or two forked prop sticks.
Wearing a bandanna fashioned as a headband, a cut-off T-shirt and dark glasses, he was perched on a tree stump and pointing back at the camera.
They are model citizens, the kind of people whose lives might be used as exemplary stories by a politician in a stump speech.
Plus “The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth/And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath”?
Looking to turn back the tide or at least hold it back for one more election, Clinton will stump in Benton County next week.
CNN posted a video of UPD Chief of Police Linda Stump addressing the issue.
Republicans and Democrats love bashing lobbyists on the stump.
For hours the gray man would sit on a tombstone, while Black Sheep read epitaphs, and then with a sigh would stump home again.
The cigar stump held firmly between his teeth, he stood on the rug before the hearth, facing the door.
But, just as they were piling some more leaves in the hollow stump, they heard many voices of men shouting in the woods.
Mrs. Maloney sat on a stump near her daughter, and busied herself energetically with alternate nursing and painting.
By sheer good fortune a big tree stump stood under the door of the freight car, or the children never could have opened it.