| 单词 | stale |
| 释义 | stale stale1 —stalely, adv. —staleness, n. /stayl/, adj., staler, stalest, v. , staled, staling. adj. 1. not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread. 2. musty; stagnant: stale air. 3. having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke. 4. 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. 5. Law. having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim. v.t. , v.i. 6. to make or become stale. [1250-1300; ME; akin to MD stel in same sense; perh. akin to STAND or to STALE2] Syn. 1. hard, tasteless, sour, insipid. 3. uninteresting, stereotyped, old, common. Ant. 1. fresh. stale2 /stayl/, v.i. , staled, staling. (of livestock, esp. horses) to urinate. [1400-50; late ME stalen to urinate; c. G stallen, Dan stalle, Norw, Sw stalla] |
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