stale

Meanings

Plural: stales

Verb

• urinate, of cattle and horses
• To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer).
• To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
• To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
• To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
• To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.
• To stalemate.
• To be stalemated.
• To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle.
• To serve as a decoy, to lure.

Adjective

• lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
  • "stale bread"
  • "the beer was stale"

Adjective Satellite

• lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
  • "stale news"

Adj

• Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.
• No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
• No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
• No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.
• Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
• Fallow, in reference to land.
• Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
• Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
• Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
• Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
• At a standstill; stalemated.

Noun

• Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
• A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
• One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.
• One of the rungs on a ladder.
• The stem of a plant.
• The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
• A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.
• A stalemate; a stalemated game.
• An ambush.
• A band of armed men or hunters.
• The main force of an army.
• Urine, especially used of horses and cattle.
• A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
• Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.
• An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.
• a partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another.
• A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse.
• A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.
• Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.

Synonyms

cold, dusty, hackneyed, haft, handle, helve, moth-eaten, shaft, snath, stem, the shaft of a scythe

Antonyms

fresh

Related Words

go stale, piss like a racehorse, stale drunk, stalk

Anagrams of stale