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stalling   (TTS Sound)

The noun stalling has 1 sense

• stall, stalling -- (a tactic used to mislead or delay)

The 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")


• stall, conk -- (come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway")


• stall -- (deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling")


• stall -- (put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse")


• stall -- (experience a stall in flight, of airplanes)


• stall -- (cause an airplane to go into a stall)


• stall -- (cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car")