How to pronounce“stale”in English
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Definitions of “stale”
No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
“Near-synonyms: gone bad, spoiled; see also Thesaurus:rotten”
No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
“Better is...be it new or stale, A harmelesse lie, than a harmefull true tale.”
Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
“I went to Riggs's batty-cake shop, and asked 'em for a penneth of the cheapest and nicest stales, that were all but blue-mouldy, but not quite.”
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.
“Ile goe tell all the Argument of his Play aforehand, and so stale his Inuention to the Auditory before it come foorth.”
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