stubbed (root: stub)

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: stub=bed

CIDE DICTIONARY

stubbed, a. 

•  Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.  [1913 Webster]
•  Abounding in stubs; stubby.  [1913 Webster]

  "A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged.  Berkley.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

stubbed

Shortness

N shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer, short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary, shortly, in short.