Definitions for stubbed
stubbed
stub·bed
Spelling: [stuhb-id, stuhbd]
IPA: /ˈstʌb ɪd, stʌbd/
Stubbed is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 122 anagrams from letters in stubbed (bbdestu).
Definitions for stubbed
noun
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a short projecting part.
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a short remaining piece, as of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
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(in a checkbook, receipt book, etc.) the inner end of each leaf, for keeping a record of the content of the part filled out and torn away.
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the returned portion of a ticket.
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the end of a fallen tree, shrub, or plant left fixed in the ground; stump.
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something having a short, blunt shape, especially a short-pointed, blunt pen.
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stub nail.
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something having the look of incomplete or stunted growth, as a horn of an animal.
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Bridge. a part-score.
adjective
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reduced to or resembling a stub; short and thick; stumpy.
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abounding in or rough with stubs.
verb (used with object)
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to strike accidentally against a projecting object:
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to extinguish the burning end of (a cigarette or cigar) by crushing it against a solid object (often followed by out):
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to clear of stubs, as land.
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to dig up by the roots; grub up (roots).
Origin of stubbed
First recorded in 1520-30; stub1 + -ed3
Examples for stubbed
To think how the lot of us were hoed, and stubbed, and grubbed!
He stubbed out the cigarette and summoned the robot to give him another.
He hung up and stubbed out the latest in his series of cigars.
Crocs, the colorful clog company long loathed by fashionistas, has stubbed its toe again.
"The camel's back" broke when at last he stubbed his toe against a stone.
At the head of the steps he stubbed his toe and down he went head first.
At present the net result of our combats is that I have a stubbed toe.
I stubbed my toe over the trigs I had set in the way of my own operations.
She paused for half a minute, then stubbed out her cigarette and shrugged.
The prowler had stubbed his stockinged toe against a chair leg.