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Definition of stub verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

stub

verb
 
/stʌb/
 
/stʌb/
Verb Forms
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/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. 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
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    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.
See stub in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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