Definition of stales in English

Wiktionary

stales (Noun)
Plural of stale.

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stales, verb, present, 3rd person singular of stale (infinitive).

WordNet

Verb stales, staling, staled
stale - urinate, of cattle and horses
		wee-wee, wee, take a leak, spend a penny, relieve oneself, piss, pee-pee, pee, pass water, micturate, make water, piddle, urinate, puddle, make waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
Adjective stale, staler, stalest
stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale"
		fresh improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"
		old of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"
		unoriginal not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham
		staleness having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging
		addled confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
		spoiled, spoilt, bad having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child"
		cold lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"
		day-old not fresh today; "day-old bread is cheaper than fresh"
		hard dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
		maggoty, flyblown especially of reputation; "a flyblown reputation"
		wilted, limp not firm; "wilted lettuce"
		moldy, mouldy, musty covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"
		rancid (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"
		rotten having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave"
		tainted, corrupt lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"
		putrid morally corrupt or evil; "the putrid atmosphere of the court"
stale - lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"
		cold, dusty, moth-eaten
		unoriginal not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham

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Wiktionary

stale (Noun)
A bird used as a decoy to trap other birds.
stale (Noun)
Any trap or lure.
stale (Noun)
A low class of prostitute originally used as a decoy by other criminals.
stale (Noun)
A person's position, especially in a battle-line.
stale (Noun)
An ambush.
stale (Noun)
A division of armed men posted in a specific place, either for an ambush or for other reasons.
stale (Noun)
A handle of a broom or rake.
stale (Noun)
Urine, especially of horses or cattle.
stale (Verb)
To lose its freshness; to become stale.
stale (Verb)
To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
stale (Verb)
To urinate.
stale (Adjective)
Having lost its freshness from age; of food still edible, but hard or unpleasant from age.
stale (Adjective)
No longer new; no longer interesting; established; old.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

stale (n.)
The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
stale (v. i.)
Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
stale (v. i.)
Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
stale (v. i.)
Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
stale (v. i.)
Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
stale (v. t.)
To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
stale (a.)
To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
stale (v. i.)
That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
stale (v. i.)
A prostitute.
stale (v. i.)
Urine, esp. that of beasts.
stale (v. t.)
Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
stale (v. t.)
A stalking-horse.
stale (v. t.)
A stalemate.
stale (v. t.)
A laughingstock; a dupe.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

stale
stāl, adj. too long kept: tainted: vapid or tasteless from age, as beer: not new: worn out by age: decayed: no longer fresh, trite: in athletics, over-trained, hence unfit, as in 'gone stale.'—n. anything become stale: urine of cattle, &c.: (Shak.) a whore.—v.t. to render insipid, to make common.—v.i. to make water, as beasts.—adv. Stale′ly.—n. Stale′ness. [Prov. Eng. stale, conn. with Old Dut. stel, old. Skeat makes stale that which reminds one of the stable, tainted, &c.—Sw. stalla, to put into a stall, also to stale (as cattle)—Sw. stall, a stable.]
stale
stāl, n. something offered or exhibited as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose: (Spens.) a decoy, a gull: (Shak.) a dupe, laughing-stock.—n. Stall, a thief's assistant. [A.S. stalu, theft—stelan, to steal.]
stale
stāl, n. the handle of anything, a stalk. [A.S. stæl, stel, a stalk.]