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Noun stumping has 1 sense
- stumping - campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches)
--1 is a kind of campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign
Verb stump has 4 senses
- stump, mix up - cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her"
--1 is one way to perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to stump Sue
- stomp, stamp, stump - walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots"
--2 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children stump to the playground
- stump - travel through a district and make political speeches; "the candidate stumped the Northeast"
--3 is one way to campaign, run
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- stump - remove tree stumps from; "stump a field"
--4 is one way to clear
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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