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Stubbed

Stubbed \Stub"bed\, a.

  1. Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.

  2. Abounding in stubs; stubby.

    A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood.
    --R. Browning.

  3. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. ``Stubbed, vulgar constitutions.''
    --Berkley.

Stubbed

Stub \Stub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stubbing.]

  1. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.

    What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land.
    --Berkley.

  2. To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.

  3. To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object. [U. S.]

Wiktionary
stubbed
  1. 1 Short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse. 2 Abounding in stubs; stubby. 3 Not delicate; hardy; rugged. v

  2. (en-past of: stub)

WordNet
stub
  1. n. a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost

  2. a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil" [syn: nub]

  3. a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt [syn: ticket stub]

  4. the part of a check that is retained as a record [syn: check stub, counterfoil]

  5. the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) [syn: butt]

  6. [also: stubbing, stubbed]

stub
  1. v. strike against an object; "She stubbed her one's toe in the dark and now it's broken" [syn: scrape, skin, abrade]

  2. [also: stubbing, stubbed]

stubbed

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Usage examples of "stubbed".

Irritated, Bookman stubbed out his cigarette and continued to address Kyril Montana.

Esther laughed suddenly, a bubbling, girlish laugh, and then pretended that she had laughed because Jane had stubbed her toe.

Nancy stubbed out his cigarillo, then he flicked an imaginary speck of ash off his yellow gloves.

He bent down at the foot of the stone monument, stubbed out his cigarillo on the earth, and left it there, like an offering.

The hacendado nodded and stubbed out his cigarette and pushed back his chair.

So when someone is making a mountain out of a molehill, they are pretending that something is as horrible as a war or a ruined picnic when it is really only as horrible as a stubbed toe.

Men cleaned their rifles, burnished their buttons and closed them to the neck, stubbed out their cigarettes and trembled a little while Castelani rampaged through the camp at Chaldi, dealing out duties, ferreting out the malingerers and stiffening spines with the swishing cane in his right hand.

And it was there still, unemptied, the ash tray in which Lucille had stubbed out her three cigarettes last night.

Men cleaned their rifles, burnished their buttons and closed them to the neck, stubbed out their cigarettes and trembled a little while Castelani rampaged through the camp at Chaldi, dealing out duties, ferreting out the malingerers and stiffening spines with the swishing cane in his right hand.

Lydia looked at the recirculated joint and stubbed it out on the balustrade.

They stubbed out mosquitoes and fanned away the powdery wingbeats of moths and sipped from ice-filled glasses and held the cold, sweating glasses against their faces and breastbones and stomachs.

He supposed that if in real life Addie had ever stubbed out one of her chain-smoked cigarettes and unzipped his fly he'd have gone limp as month-old rhubarb but still he liked to sit with his knee pressed accidentally on purpose up against her thigh while she asked her reporter's ever-serious questions.

The Finn stubbed his cigarette out in a cracked ceramic Campan ashtray.

I stubbed out the cigarette in the sticky remains of the imitation cranberry sauce well in the TV dinner plate.

But he stubbed the cigarette out in the crumb-littered plate that had once held Quigly's custard cream pie.