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1. Campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches)

1. Cause to be perplexed or confounded
   "This problem stumped her"
   - mix up
    
2. Walk heavily
   - stomp, stamp
    
3. Travel through a district and make political speeches
   "the candidate stumped the Northeast"
    
4. Remove tree stumps from
   "stump a field"

Derived forms: stumpings

See also: stumper

Type of: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, campaign, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, clear, dumbfound, electioneering, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, political campaign, pose, puzzle, run, stick, stupefy, vex, walk

Encyclopedia: Stump