noun
- A tactic used to mislead or delay.
- synonyms: stall
verb
- Postpone doing what one should be doing.
- usage: "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
- synonyms: procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
- Come to a stop.
- usage: "The car stalled in the driveway"
- Deliberately delay an event or action.
- usage: "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"
- synonyms: stall
- Put into, or keep in, a stall.
- usage: "Stall the horse"
- synonyms: stall
- Experience a stall in flight, of airplanes.
- synonyms: stall
- Cause an airplane to go into a stall.
- synonyms: stall
- Cause an engine to stop.
- usage: "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"
- synonyms: stall
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