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Stump vs Amaze - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between stump and amaze

is that stump is to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge while amaze is to undergo amazement; to be astounded.

As nouns the difference between stump and amaze

is that stump is the remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb while amaze is amazement, astonishment.

As verbs the difference between stump and amaze

is that stump is to stop, confuse, or puzzle while amaze is to stupefy; to knock unconscious.

stump

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia stump)
  • The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
  • (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
  • (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump !'
  • (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
  • (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
  • A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
  • (slang, humorous) A leg.
  • to stir one's stumps
  • A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
  • A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
  • Derived terms

    * stumps * pull up stumps * on the stump * take the stump

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to stop, confuse, or puzzle
  • to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
  • ''This last question has me stumped .
  • to campaign
  • He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
  • (transitive, US, colloquial) to travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes
  • (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped
  • (cricket) to bowl down the stumps of (a wicket)
  • * Tennyson
  • A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.
  • to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge
  • See also

    * stump up

    Anagrams

    * ----

    amaze

    English

    Verb

    (amaz)
  • (obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.
  • (obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
  • * Shakespeare
  • a labyrinth to amaze his foes
  • (obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.
  • *, New York Review Books 2001, p.261:
  • [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […].
  • To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.
  • He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
  • * Bible, Matthew xii. 23
  • And all the people were amazed , and said, Is not this the son of David?
  • * Goldsmith
  • Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.
  • To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
  • Noun

    (-)
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
  • All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].
  • * 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 103:
  • Shattuck looked at him in amaze .
  • * 1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), Quinx'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1361:
  • She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze , dazed by her own behaviour.