stub
verb/stʌb/
/stʌb/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they stub | /stʌb/ /stʌb/ |
| he / she / it stubs | /stʌbz/ /stʌbz/ |
| past simple stubbed | /stʌbd/ /stʌbd/ |
| past participle stubbed | /stʌbd/ /stʌbd/ |
| -ing form stubbing | /ˈstʌbɪŋ/ /ˈstʌbɪŋ/ |
- stub your toe (against/on something) to hurt your toe by accident by hitting it against something hard
- She stubbed her toe on the step.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryStub is used with these nouns as the object:- toe
Word OriginOld English stub(b) ‘stump of a tree’, of Germanic origin. The verb is first recorded (late Middle English) in the sense ‘to pull a plant up by the roots’; the current verb sense (mid 19th cent.) was originally a US usage.
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