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Verb stall has 7 senses
- procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally - postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
--1 is one way to delay
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They stall a long time
- stall, conk - come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"
--2 is one way to stop, halt
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Something ----s
- stall - deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"
--3 is one way to delay, detain, hold up
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Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- stall - put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse"
--4 is one way to shelter
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Somebody ----s something
- stall - experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
--5 is one way to stop, halt
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Something ----s
- stall - cause an airplane to go into a stall
--6 is one way to stop
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Somebody ----s something
- stall - cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"
--7 is one way to stop
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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