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stub

noun as in stumpy end

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When the sensor detects movement in a dark room, it will light up so you don’t stub your toe in the middle of the night.

Either stubbing your toe or appearing through the grass at about chest height, these walls direct and disrupt your path.

From Quartz

Without it we wouldn’t know if we stubbed our toes or burned our skin.

The audit also found the company paid some employees in cash with handmade receipts for which it couldn’t provide stubs.

I was actually going through check stubs last night and I was going through old paperwork, and I found a bunch of old check stubs from my job and I’m like, “Wow.”

From Ozy

I felt there were a lot of ways that I could spend the stub end of my life cycle that were more productive.

Instead, they were forced to compromise by having him stub out a cigarette.

What did you do—go through his wastebasket and find his pay stub?

Halfway down the hill one of her skis must have struck somethingperhaps the stub of a bush sticking out of the snow.

With this he severed clean the broken half of the boom, tying the ends of the rigging to the short stub that was left.

The last sight we have of him is as he violently resists a grown-up sister who is trying to take away the stub!

He wrote for a few seconds, tore the check from the stub, and handed it to Joyce.

Then, if you happen to stub your toe over some useful gadget, they increase your pay.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stub, such as: butt, counterfoil, dock, remainder, remnant, and root.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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