stumped

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  Rhymes: -ʌmpt

stumped (comparative more stumped, superlative most stumped)

1. (informal) Perplexed, at a loss.

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

   I'm stumped by this question.

   • 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:

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

2. (cricket, of a batsman, not comparable) out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.

stumped

1. simple past tense and past participle of stump