What part of speech is stumps?

Stumps can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. stumps is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of stump (infinitive).
  • 2. stumps is a noun, plural of stump.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does stumps mean?

Definitions

Verb

stump - remove tree stumps from; "stump a field"
stump - cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her"
stump - travel through a district and make political speeches; "the candidate stumped the Northeast"
stump - walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots"

Noun

stump - the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
stump - (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
stump - the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
stump - a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

Examples of stumps

#   Sentence  
1. noun A snowman is left in the night darkness in company with snowy stumps, boulders and anthills.
2. noun But I have nothing left. I am just an old stump.
3. noun Tom sat on the stump loading his gun.
4. noun Since you sat on the stump, you should've given me a grand.
5. noun "Oh, I see you don't know what Poop is!" "Hmm... Poop is jokes about 'you sat on the stump and owed me a grand', right?"
6. noun The stump is like a phallus of nature.
7. noun He stumbled on the stump.
8. noun He sat on a mossy tree stump.
9. noun After work had been done, the old man sat down on a tree stump under the window of the hut and thought.
10. noun His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
11. noun Tom sat on the tree stump, reading a book.
12. noun Tom was sitting on that stump over there not too long ago.
13. noun Even the rotten stump stood straight and healthy on the green hill-side.
14. noun Tom was sitting on a tree stump with Mary on his lap.
15. noun That tree had a very thick trunk. Look how many rings you can see in the stump.
16. verb Stump a field.
Sentence  
noun
A snowman is left in the night darkness in company with snowy stumps, boulders and anthills.
But I have nothing left. I am just an old stump.
Tom sat on the stump loading his gun.
Since you sat on the stump, you should've given me a grand.
"Oh, I see you don't know what Poop is!" "Hmm... Poop is jokes about 'you sat on the stump and owed me a grand', right?"
The stump is like a phallus of nature.
He stumbled on the stump.
He sat on a mossy tree stump.
After work had been done, the old man sat down on a tree stump under the window of the hut and thought.
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
Tom sat on the tree stump, reading a book.
Tom was sitting on that stump over there not too long ago.
Even the rotten stump stood straight and healthy on the green hill-side.
Tom was sitting on a tree stump with Mary on his lap.
That tree had a very thick trunk. Look how many rings you can see in the stump.
verb
Stump a field.

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