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stale
Overview of verb stale
The verb stale has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. stale -- (urinate, of cattle and horses)
Overview of adj stale
The adj stale has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) stale -- (showing deterioration from age; "stale bread")
2. stale, dusty, moth-eaten -- (lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race")
3. cold, stale -- (no longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news")
Grep of noun stale
stalemate
staleness
Antonyms of verb stale
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb stale
1 sense of stale
Sense 1
stale
=> make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water
=> excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
=> discharge, expel, eject, release
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb stale
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb stale
1 sense of stale
Sense 1
stale
=> make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water
'Cause To' of verb stale
Derived Forms of verb stale
Domain of verb stale
Domain Terms of verb stale
Familiarity of verb stale
stale used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb stale
1 sense of stale
Sense 1
stale
*> Something ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb stale
1 sense of stale
Sense 1
stale
> make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water
=> wet
=> stale
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb stale
Sense 1
stale
=> make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water
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Grep of verb stale
stale
stalemate
Antonyms of adj stale
3 senses of stale
Sense 1
stale (vs. fresh)
fresh (vs. stale)
=> caller
=> crisp, firm, crunchy
=> fresh-cut
=> good, unspoiled, unspoilt
=> hot
=> new-made
=> strong, warm
Sense 2
stale, dusty, moth-eaten
INDIRECT (VIA unoriginal) -> original
Sense 3
cold, stale
INDIRECT (VIA old) -> new
Similarity of adj stale
3 senses of stale
Sense 1
stale (vs. fresh)
=> addled
=> bad, spoiled, spoilt
=> cold
=> day-old
=> hard
=> flyblown, maggoty
=> limp, wilted
=> moldy, mouldy, musty
=> rancid
Also See> old#2; unoriginal#1
Sense 2
stale, dusty, moth-eaten
=> unoriginal (vs. original)
Sense 3
cold, stale
=> old (vs. new)
Pertainyms of adj stale
Attributes of adj stale
1 of 3 senses of stale
Sense 1
stale (vs. fresh)
=> staleness
Domain of adj stale
Domain Terms of adj stale
Familiarity of adj stale
stale used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj stale
stale
stalemated
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