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not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
2.
musty; stagnant: stale air.
3.
having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke.
4.
having lost freshness, vigor, quick intelligence, initiative, or the like, as from overstrain, boredom, or surfeit: He had grown stale on the job and needed a long vacation.
5.
Law. having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
6.
to make or become stale.
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Staling
is always a great word to know.
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Word Origin & History
stale
c.1300, "freed from dregs or lees" (of ale, wine, etc.), i.e. "having stood long enough to clear," cognate with M.Du. stel "stale" (of beer), and probably ult. from P.Gmc. base *sta- "stand," the source of O.E. standan "to stand," Perhaps via O.Fr. estaler "halt," from Frankish *stal- "position" (see
EXPANDstall (1)). The meaning "not fresh" is first recorded late 15c. Figurative sense (of immaterial things) is recorded from 1560s.
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