transferred. To arrest or defeat utterly, discomfit. In modern use, often: to defeat or frustrate the ‘game’ or scheme of (any one) by a…

transitive. = stalemate, v.

To check; to puzzle, nonplus, ‘stump’; to tax the resources of. Now northern dialect.

To bring to a standstill, render unable to proceed. literal and figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To plunge into a bog; to hamper in a bog, literal and figurative.

transitive. To bring to a nonplus or standstill; to perplex, confound. Frequently in past participle (cf. nonplussed, adj.).

transitive. To subject to a stalemate.

(originally U.S.) To cause to be at a loss; to confront with an insuperable difficulty; to nonplus.

transitive. Fox-hunting. To confine (a rider, or the field) in an enclosed space, or otherwise prevent the following of the chase; usually in passive…

transitive. Australian and New Zealand. To prevent (a person, vehicle, etc.) from making progress; to hinder, frustrate; (also) to perplex…

(see quots.); also figurative (chiefly passive), to place in an impossible position; to balk, ‘stymie’.

figurative. To impede, obstruct, frustrate, thwart (a person, an activity, or a project).

figurative. To deal a blow to, to refute, to ‘stump’ (see also quot. 1895).

(transitive) to bring to a dead end; intransitive, to come to a dead end.