stubbed

[stuhb-id, stuhbd]

adjective

1. reduced to or resembling a stub; short and thick; stumpy.

2. abounding in or rough with stubs. stub.

Other Word Forms

• stubbedness noun
• unstubbed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stubbed¹

First recorded in 1520–30; stub ¹ + -ed ³

Example Sentences

According to Roberts, Betts stubbed his toe after the team returned from this week’s trip on Wednesday.

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As she stubbed it out and prepared to go back into the meeting, she saw Tom coming in the opposite direction.

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She said that during her various arrests, she was badly beaten, threatened with being shot in the leg and having a cigarette stubbed out on her back.

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But the breakthrough came from an Embassy cigarette end stubbed out on an ashtray on the living room coffee table.

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And the expressive Garfield can convey water-eyed empathy so deftly that you know Tobias would be laid low if Almut so much as stubbed her toe on the leg of a coffee table.

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