stump 的 3 个定义
- 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.
- (13)
- to reduce to a stump; truncate; lop.
- to clear of stumps, as land.
- Chiefly Southern U.S. to stub, as one's toe.
- (8)
- to walk heavily or clumsily, as if with a wooden leg: The captain stumped across the deck.
- to make political campaign speeches; electioneer.
stump 近义词
end piece
confuse, bewilder
walk with deliberation
更多stump例句
- 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.