stumped

comparative more stumped · superlative most stumped

1. informalPerplexed, confused.

   I'm stumped by this question.

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

   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

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

2. not comparableball gamesout as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.
3. archaicslangDone for; bankrupt or ruined.

   "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."

   1873, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 11, page 577

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of stump