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stumped

adjective as in puzzled

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In contrast to Hoover, who had rarely left FBI headquarters and publicly avoided politics, Gray openly stumped for Nixon in the 1972 campaign.

From Salon

Amateur cricketers have been stumped after the sport was permanently banned at a village pitch where it had been played for more than 200 years.

From BBC

Bethell cut to point and Root was stumped by a distance, the two wickets falling for the addition of only four runs.

From BBC

And firefighters — at least at the moment — seem stumped.

Their partnership was broken when Stokes retired hurt on 66 with cramp in the evening session and Root was struggling with a similar issue when he was finally stumped off Ravindra Jadeja shortly after.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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