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Stuped vs Stoped - What's the difference?

stuped | stoped |

As verbs the difference between stuped and stoped

is that stuped is past tense of stupe while stoped is past tense of stope.

stuped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stupe)

    • stupe

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortening of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A stupid person or (rarely) thing.
    • He thinks Santa lives at the South Pole? What a stupe !

    Etymology 2

    From Middle English, from (etyl) , variant of stuppa.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hot, wet medicated cloth or sponge applied externally.

    • Verb

    (stup)
  • To foment with such a cloth or sponge.
    • (Wiseman)

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    stoped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stope)

    • stope

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 318,
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * stope assay plan * stope board * stope fillings * stope hoist * stope pillar

    Verb

  • (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.

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