stall

stall is a 5-letter English word with 31 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.
2. intransitive verb. A stable; a place for cattle.
3. intransitive verb. A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
4. intransitive verb. A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
5. intransitive verb. A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.
6. intransitive verb. In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
7. intransitive verb. The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.
8. transitive verb. To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
9. transitive verb. To fatten; as, to stall cattle.
10. transitive verb. To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
11. transitive verb. To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.
12. transitive verb. To forestall; to anticipitate. Having
13. transitive verb. To keep close; to keep secret.
14. intransitive verb. To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.
15. intransitive verb. To kennel, as dogs.
16. intransitive verb. To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
17. intransitive verb. To be tired of eating, as cattle.
18. noun. a tactic used to mislead or delay

    Synonyms: stalling

19. noun. small area set off by walls for special use

    Synonyms: booth, cubicle, kiosk

20. noun. small individual study area in a library

    Synonyms: carrel, carrell, cubicle

21. noun. a booth where articles are displayed for sale

    Synonyms: stand

22. noun. a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
23. noun. seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
24. noun. a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge

    "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it"

25. verb. deliberately delay an event or action

    "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"

26. verb. come to a stop

    "The car stalled in the driveway"

    Synonyms: conk

27. verb. cause an engine to stop

    "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"

28. verb. cause an airplane to go into a stall
29. verb. experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
30. verb. put into, or keep in, a stall

    "Stall the horse"

31. verb. postpone doing what one should be doing

    "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"

    Synonyms: dillydally, procrastinate, shillyshally

Synonyms

stalling, booth, cubicle, kiosk, carrel, carrell, stand, conk, dillydally, procrastinate, shillyshally

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stall:

talls

Common word forms

stalls, stalled, staller, stalling, stallment

Words from these letters

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