stump
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3.0
- noun
- /stʌmp/
- And so they cut it down in sections and the last section looks like a giant stump because it is.
- a tree stump
- stumps sprout
- stump length
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Watch on YouTubeYou want to leave about a six inch stump when you cut them back.
- You want to leave about a six inch stump when you cut them back.
- He calls it his stump, but my OT brain says residual limb.
- He decides to stand up on a stump and yell at all of the people to come hit her.
- The neo vagina is the inverted penis skin and at the end of it, you've got this stump that you've left of the penis, which will be your clitoris.
- So then they had to cut his stumps shorter and until in the end, the gangrene took him.
Examples
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From my upstairs bedroom window, I could see the tree stump in the center of our backyard.
Fiction book (1992) -
Once I get a ways in, I crouch behind a tree stump and listen.
Fiction book (1992) -
We were all sitting on a tree stump over there.
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You want to leave about a six inch stump when you cut them back.
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Take the stumps up out of the ground.
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My father stood beside the tree stump, and my mother sat on the back porch.
Fiction book (1992) -
Only Hasari remains apart, seated on a tree stump in the middle of the quad.
Fiction book (1992) -
With a strange calmness, Bethany stared at the stump on her shoulder where her arm used to be.
Academic text (2011) -
Doctors told Lexi that once the swelling in her stump went down, she would be fitted with her own prosthetic.
Academic text (2011) -
We were all sitting on a tree stump over there.
Synonyms
12
3.7
A small piece left after most of a pencil, cigarette, or candle is used
10
1.8
A short part of a tree that remains in the ground after it is cut down
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Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
15
6.5
A talk a politician gives many times during a campaign about their main plans
- Specialized
A small sharp hand shovel with a pointed blade for digging out roots and weeds
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Etymology
Stump originally named the short part of a tree left after cutting; it comes from an old German word for a 'short, cut-off piece' of wood. So a stump is what remains of a tree, limb, or tooth.