"stumped" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-au-stumped.ogg [Australia] Forms: more stumped [comparative], most stumped [superlative]
Rhymes: -ʌmpt Head templates: {{en-adj}} stumped (comparative more stumped, superlative most stumped)
  1. (informal) Perplexed, confused. Tags: informal Synonyms: at a loss, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confused, flummoxed, lost, nonplussed, perplexed, puzzled Translations (baffled): እንደማይመለከትህ (inidemayimeleketihi) (Amharic), nahasturik (Basque), tret (Catalan), perplex (Dutch), trompus (Esperanto), perplexe [feminine, masculine] (French), დაბნეულები (dabneulebi) (Georgian), kumu (Hawaiian), perplesso [masculine] (Italian), perplessa [feminine] (Italian), perspicuum fecerit (Latin), hanepī (Maori), pōnitiniti (Maori), pōkaku (Maori), tsístłʼah naayá (Navajo), perplexo [masculine] (Portuguese), zaglavila [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), perplejo (Spanish), นิ่งงัน (nìng ngạn) (Thai), סטאַמפּט (stampt) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-stumped-en-adj-J~Z8Vpg4 Disambiguation of 'baffled': 89 2 9
  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. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Cricket
    Sense id: en-stumped-en-adj-yAncosdO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 36 16 43 Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  3. (slang, archaic) Done for; bankrupt or ruined. Tags: archaic, slang
    Sense id: en-stumped-en-adj-xZzUGJ-q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 36 16 43

Verb

Audio: en-au-stumped.ogg [Australia]
Rhymes: -ʌmpt Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} stumped
  1. simple past and past participle of stump Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: stump
    Sense id: en-stumped-en-verb-1NQSND5J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 36 16 43

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.