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ALL meanings of stale

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  • adjective stale bread 1
  • adjective stale no longer novel 1
  • adjective stale drink: flat, tasteless 1
  • adjective stale air: musty, not fresh 1
  • adjective stale lacking energy/ideas 1
  • intransitive verb stale become stale 1
  • adjective stale not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread. 1
  • adjective stale musty; stagnant: stale air. 1
  • adjective stale having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke. 1
  • adjective stale having lost freshness, vigor, quick intelligence, initiative, or the like, as from overstrain, boredom, or surfeit: He had grown stale on the job and needed a long vacation. 1
  • adjective stale Law. having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim. 1
  • verb without object stale (of livestock, especially horses) to urinate. 1
  • adjective stale Stale food is no longer fresh or good to eat. 0
  • adjective stale Stale air or a stale smells is unpleasant because it is no longer fresh. 0
  • graded adjective stale If you feel stale, you are bored because you have no new ideas or enthusiasm for what you are doing. 0
  • adjective stale If you say that a place, an activity, or an idea is stale, you mean that it has become boring because it is always the same. 0
  • adjective stale (esp of food) hard, musty, or dry from being kept too long 0
  • adjective stale (of beer, etc) flat and tasteless from being kept open too long 0
  • adjective stale (of air) stagnant; foul 0
  • adjective stale uninteresting from overuse; hackneyed 0
  • adjective stale no longer new 0
  • adjective stale lacking in energy or ideas through overwork or lack of variety 0
  • adjective stale (of a cheque) not negotiable by a bank as a result of not having been presented within six months of being written 0
  • adjective stale (of a claim, etc) having lost its effectiveness or force, as by failure to act or by the lapse of time 0
  • verb stale to make or become stale 0
  • verb stale (of livestock) to urinate 0
  • noun stale the urine of horses or cattle 0
  • adjective stale having lost freshness; made musty, dry, bad, etc. by having been kept too long 0
  • adjective stale flat; vapid; tasteless 0
  • adjective stale hard and dry 0
  • adjective stale low in oxygen content; stagnant 0
  • adjective stale having lost originality or newness; lacking in interest through familiarity or overuse; hackneyed; trite 0
  • adjective stale out of condition, ineffective, enervated, bored, etc. from either too much or too little activity 0
  • adjective stale having lost legal force or effect through lack of use or action, as a claim or lien 0
  • intransitive verb stale to urinate 0
  • noun stale urine, as of horses or cattle 0
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