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Meanings of stumped in English

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difuminar

Drawing technique of blending or smudging the applied medium, such as charcoal, soft pencil, pastel, chalk, or crayon, by using a cigar-shaped implement called a "stump"

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Usage of stumped in English
1
What are you good at? The question stumped her for a minute.
Safe harbour
2
Quite devoid of self-consciousness, Gundabyr stumped forward and held out his hand.
The Dargonesti (Elves of the Sea)
3
The question was so unexpected that Janki was stumped for an answer.
Melnitz
4
With no physical data to explain that Brailsford admitted he was stumped.
The Guardian
5
The tagline featured a play on words that left many viewers stumped.
News.com.au
6
On a thousand platforms across the North, Republican leaders stumped for Lincoln.
A. lincoln: a biography
7
However, I stumped Taliaferro County for Garfield when I was in Georgia.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
8
Do you have a medical condition that's stumped doctors and defied diagnosis?
Wired
9
The gate was open, so the whole quartet stumped down the steps.
The Great God Pan
10
He bowed in silence, and stumped down the steps with his stick.
A Roman Singer
11
But from time to time, she ran into something that stumped her.
Death masks
12
I sat, stumped and frustrated by a million facts I couldn't integrate.
Fatal Voyage
13
This stumped me for a while, and we drove on in silence.
Vandemark's Folly
14
Usually I have the fast comeback, but Lynn stumped me this time.
Made of honor
15
During FDR's 1944 re-election campaign, liberal and progressive celebrities stumped for Roosevelt.
Reuters
16
The grocer could tell me no more, and I was completely stumped.
The Paternoster Ruby
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Stumped through the time
Stumped across language varieties
United States of America
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United Kingdom
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