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English - English Dict (Wordnet)
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Noun - a tactic used to mislead or delay
- small individual study area in a library
- seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
- a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge
- the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
Verb - cause an engine to stop
- The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car
- cause an airplane to go into a stall
- experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- put into, or keep in, a stall
- deliberately delay an event or action
- she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling
- come to a stop
- The car stalled in the driveway
- postpone doing what one should be doing
- He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days
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