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stumped

adjective

  1. confounded, baffled, perplexed
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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Perplexed, confused.

    “I'm stumped by this question.”

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

  2. out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.
  3. Done 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."”

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of stump