Definition of stonewall in English:

stonewall

verbˈstəʊnwɔːlstəʊnˈwɔːlˈstoʊnˌwɔl

[with object]

1Delay or obstruct (a request, process, or person) by refusing to answer questions or by being evasive.
she has also stonewalled queries about her love life
Example sentencesExamples
- The letter asserted that the board had stonewalled the waiting-list members.
- I don't have experience with the government stonewalling me at all.
- I was trying to explain to them that I needed the money but they were stonewalling me.
- This allows the airline to stonewall the workers' demands for improved living standards while amassing profits.
- But even a good question can be stonewalled or sidestepped.
- The White House is going to pay a heavy political price for the months it spent denying and stonewalling the problem.
- I can't tell for sure, but it seems like my dad is stonewalling my mom's lawyers by not responding to letters.
- By acknowledging nothing, denying everything and stonewalling every investigation, we are all therefore complicit in a war crime of unprecedented gravity.
- For six days the company has stonewalled customers and the press with vague explanations or, worse, no explanation at all.
- If you try to phone them, the line may go dead; if you get through you are stonewalled.
- The bankers refused to give an inch and just stonewalled us.
- They seem to have made a decision to stonewall me in the hopes that I will simply go away.
- But when state prosecutors stonewalled the case, the Justice Department flatly refused to bring charges.
- All questions were to be stonewalled, on the logical grounds that any comment would prejudice the judicial inquiry set to be announced by the Ministry of Defence.
- When she confronted Don, he stonewalled her and limited her access to the business records.
- They just don't want to know and they don't care, they stonewall us.
- Each and every time I'd try to arrange a meeting, she'd stonewall me.
- That hasn't stopped him from trying to market his album, even if commercial radio stations have been stonewalling him.
- This went on four times, with Wallace getting more desperate as he believed Bill was stonewalling him.
- The hospital stonewalled Turner, the website had no news.
Synonyms
obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, stand in the way of, frustrate, thwart, baulk, inhibit, hamstring, sabotage, encumber, restrain, slow, slow down, retard, delay, forestall, arrest, check, stop, halt, stay, derail, restrict, limit, curb, put a brake on, bridle, fetter, shackle
use delaying tactics, play for time, temporize, gain time, hang back, hang fire, hold back, procrastinate, hedge, beat about the bush, drag one's feet, delay, filibuster
1. 1.1Cricket no object Bat extremely defensively.
  Example sentencesExamples
  MacGill, who has taken 39 wickets in six Tests against England, often found it more difficult bowling to players whose sole intention was to stonewall.
  If they batted the overs West Indies would win so Vaughan had to go for the kill and Browne and Bradshaw stonewalled defiantly.

noun ˈstəʊnwɔːlstəʊnˈwɔːl

An act of delaying or obstructing a person, request, or process.
I have repeatedly given him the opportunity to clear this matter up, but the estate has met with stonewall after stonewall
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘No comment,’ says Smeaton, the only time in several days he resorts to a stonewall.
- Anyway, the investigators interviewed the guards and ran into the usual stonewall.
- Here were two young reporters who brought down an administration by their doggedness, cutting through the stonewall.
- But when the journalist politely quizzed Barry about his pay - whether he felt it complied with the recent sentiment about corporate accountability, and whether he felt earned it - all we got was a stonewall.

Derivatives

stonewaller

nounˈstəʊnwɔːləˈstoʊnˌwɔlər

I have to agree that we tend to be terrifically good stonewallers in the media when we get in trouble.

Rhymes

all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl

Definition of stonewall in US English:

stonewall

verbˈstōnˌwôlˈstoʊnˌwɔl

[with object]

Delay or block (a request, process, or person) by refusing to answer questions or by giving evasive replies, especially in politics.
the highest level of bureaucracy stonewalled us
Example sentencesExamples
- That hasn't stopped him from trying to market his album, even if commercial radio stations have been stonewalling him.
- If you try to phone them, the line may go dead; if you get through you are stonewalled.
- The letter asserted that the board had stonewalled the waiting-list members.
- I was trying to explain to them that I needed the money but they were stonewalling me.
- I don't have experience with the government stonewalling me at all.
- They just don't want to know and they don't care, they stonewall us.
- When she confronted Don, he stonewalled her and limited her access to the business records.
- But even a good question can be stonewalled or sidestepped.
- All questions were to be stonewalled, on the logical grounds that any comment would prejudice the judicial inquiry set to be announced by the Ministry of Defence.
- The White House is going to pay a heavy political price for the months it spent denying and stonewalling the problem.
- For six days the company has stonewalled customers and the press with vague explanations or, worse, no explanation at all.
- By acknowledging nothing, denying everything and stonewalling every investigation, we are all therefore complicit in a war crime of unprecedented gravity.
- But when state prosecutors stonewalled the case, the Justice Department flatly refused to bring charges.
- They seem to have made a decision to stonewall me in the hopes that I will simply go away.
- This went on four times, with Wallace getting more desperate as he believed Bill was stonewalling him.
- This allows the airline to stonewall the workers' demands for improved living standards while amassing profits.
- The bankers refused to give an inch and just stonewalled us.
- Each and every time I'd try to arrange a meeting, she'd stonewall me.
- The hospital stonewalled Turner, the website had no news.
- I can't tell for sure, but it seems like my dad is stonewalling my mom's lawyers by not responding to letters.
Synonyms
obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, stand in the way of, frustrate, thwart, baulk, inhibit, hamstring, sabotage, encumber, restrain, slow, slow down, retard, delay, forestall, arrest, check, stop, halt, stay, derail, restrict, limit, curb, put a brake on, bridle, fetter, shackle
use delaying tactics, play for time, temporize, gain time, hang back, hang fire, hold back, procrastinate, hedge, beat about the bush, drag one's feet, delay, filibuster

单词	stonewall
释义	Definition of stonewall in English: stonewall verbˈstəʊnwɔːlstəʊnˈwɔːlˈstoʊnˌwɔl [with object] 1Delay or obstruct (a request, process, or person) by refusing to answer questions or by being evasive. she has also stonewalled queries about her love life Example sentencesExamples The letter asserted that the board had stonewalled the waiting-list members. I don't have experience with the government stonewalling me at all. I was trying to explain to them that I needed the money but they were stonewalling me. This allows the airline to stonewall the workers' demands for improved living standards while amassing profits. But even a good question can be stonewalled or sidestepped. The White House is going to pay a heavy political price for the months it spent denying and stonewalling the problem. I can't tell for sure, but it seems like my dad is stonewalling my mom's lawyers by not responding to letters. By acknowledging nothing, denying everything and stonewalling every investigation, we are all therefore complicit in a war crime of unprecedented gravity. For six days the company has stonewalled customers and the press with vague explanations or, worse, no explanation at all. If you try to phone them, the line may go dead; if you get through you are stonewalled. The bankers refused to give an inch and just stonewalled us. They seem to have made a decision to stonewall me in the hopes that I will simply go away. But when state prosecutors stonewalled the case, the Justice Department flatly refused to bring charges. All questions were to be stonewalled, on the logical grounds that any comment would prejudice the judicial inquiry set to be announced by the Ministry of Defence. When she confronted Don, he stonewalled her and limited her access to the business records. They just don't want to know and they don't care, they stonewall us. Each and every time I'd try to arrange a meeting, she'd stonewall me. That hasn't stopped him from trying to market his album, even if commercial radio stations have been stonewalling him. This went on four times, with Wallace getting more desperate as he believed Bill was stonewalling him. The hospital stonewalled Turner, the website had no news. Synonyms obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, stand in the way of, frustrate, thwart, baulk, inhibit, hamstring, sabotage, encumber, restrain, slow, slow down, retard, delay, forestall, arrest, check, stop, halt, stay, derail, restrict, limit, curb, put a brake on, bridle, fetter, shackle use delaying tactics, play for time, temporize, gain time, hang back, hang fire, hold back, procrastinate, hedge, beat about the bush, drag one's feet, delay, filibuster 1.1Cricket no object Bat extremely defensively. Example sentencesExamples MacGill, who has taken 39 wickets in six Tests against England, often found it more difficult bowling to players whose sole intention was to stonewall. If they batted the overs West Indies would win so Vaughan had to go for the kill and Browne and Bradshaw stonewalled defiantly. noun ˈstəʊnwɔːlstəʊnˈwɔːl An act of delaying or obstructing a person, request, or process. I have repeatedly given him the opportunity to clear this matter up, but the estate has met with stonewall after stonewall Example sentencesExamples ‘No comment,’ says Smeaton, the only time in several days he resorts to a stonewall. Anyway, the investigators interviewed the guards and ran into the usual stonewall. Here were two young reporters who brought down an administration by their doggedness, cutting through the stonewall. But when the journalist politely quizzed Barry about his pay - whether he felt it complied with the recent sentiment about corporate accountability, and whether he felt earned it - all we got was a stonewall. Derivatives stonewaller nounˈstəʊnwɔːləˈstoʊnˌwɔlər I have to agree that we tend to be terrifically good stonewallers in the media when we get in trouble. Rhymes all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl Definition of stonewall in US English: stonewall verbˈstōnˌwôlˈstoʊnˌwɔl [with object] Delay or block (a request, process, or person) by refusing to answer questions or by giving evasive replies, especially in politics. the highest level of bureaucracy stonewalled us Example sentencesExamples That hasn't stopped him from trying to market his album, even if commercial radio stations have been stonewalling him. If you try to phone them, the line may go dead; if you get through you are stonewalled. The letter asserted that the board had stonewalled the waiting-list members. I was trying to explain to them that I needed the money but they were stonewalling me. I don't have experience with the government stonewalling me at all. They just don't want to know and they don't care, they stonewall us. When she confronted Don, he stonewalled her and limited her access to the business records. But even a good question can be stonewalled or sidestepped. All questions were to be stonewalled, on the logical grounds that any comment would prejudice the judicial inquiry set to be announced by the Ministry of Defence. The White House is going to pay a heavy political price for the months it spent denying and stonewalling the problem. For six days the company has stonewalled customers and the press with vague explanations or, worse, no explanation at all. By acknowledging nothing, denying everything and stonewalling every investigation, we are all therefore complicit in a war crime of unprecedented gravity. But when state prosecutors stonewalled the case, the Justice Department flatly refused to bring charges. They seem to have made a decision to stonewall me in the hopes that I will simply go away. This went on four times, with Wallace getting more desperate as he believed Bill was stonewalling him. This allows the airline to stonewall the workers' demands for improved living standards while amassing profits. The bankers refused to give an inch and just stonewalled us. Each and every time I'd try to arrange a meeting, she'd stonewall me. The hospital stonewalled Turner, the website had no news. I can't tell for sure, but it seems like my dad is stonewalling my mom's lawyers by not responding to letters. Synonyms obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, stand in the way of, frustrate, thwart, baulk, inhibit, hamstring, sabotage, encumber, restrain, slow, slow down, retard, delay, forestall, arrest, check, stop, halt, stay, derail, restrict, limit, curb, put a brake on, bridle, fetter, shackle use delaying tactics, play for time, temporize, gain time, hang back, hang fire, hold back, procrastinate, hedge, beat about the bush, drag one's feet, delay, filibuster
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