Stuped vs Stoped - What's the difference?
stuped | stoped |
(stupe)
(slang) A stupid person or (rarely) thing.
To foment with such a cloth or sponge.
(stope)
A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 318,
(mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
(mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
As verbs the difference between stuped and stoped
is that stuped is past tense of stupe while stoped is past tense of stope.stuped
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Verb
(head)stupe
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Etymology 1
Shortening of .Noun
(en noun)- He thinks Santa lives at the South Pole? What a stupe !
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from (etyl) , variant of stuppa.Verb
(stup)- (Wiseman)
Anagrams
* ----stoped
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Verb
(head)stope
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Noun
(en noun)- The other smell that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes , from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.