stale
Adjective
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Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age (synset 301072500)
"stale bread"; "the beer was stale"also:
- old - of long duration; not new
- unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual
tells us about: staleness - having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of agingsimilar to:- addled - (of eggs) no longer edible
- bad, spoiled, spoilt - (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- cold - having lost freshness through passage of time
- day-old - not fresh today
- hard - dried out
- flyblown, maggoty - spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
- moldy, mouldy, musty - covered with or smelling of mold
- rancid - (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition
- rotten - having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
- corrupt, tainted - touched by rot or decay
- putrid - in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor
- putrescent - becoming putrid
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Lacking originality or spontaneity;
No longer new (synset 301694033)"moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"similar to: unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual
Verb
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Urinate, of cattle and horses (synset 200072650)
is a type of: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee, wee-wee - eliminate urine
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