| stale | | |
| v. (body) | 1. stale | urinate, of cattle and horses. |
| ~ make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, wee, wee-wee, piddle, urinate, puddle, make | eliminate urine.; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" |
| adj. | 2. stale | lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age.; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" |
| ~ addled | (of eggs) no longer edible.; "an addled egg" |
| ~ spoiled, spoilt, bad | (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition.; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" |
| ~ cold | having lost freshness through passage of time.; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent" |
| ~ day-old | not fresh today.; "day-old bread is cheaper than fresh" |
| ~ hard | dried out.; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before" |
| ~ flyblown, maggoty | spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies.; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots" |
| ~ limp, wilted | not firm.; "wilted lettuce" |
| ~ moldy, mouldy, musty | covered with or smelling of mold.; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor" |
| ~ rancid | (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition.; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon" |
| ~ rotten | having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness.; "dead and rotten in his grave" |
| ~ tainted, corrupt | touched by rot or decay.; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic" |
| ~ putrid | in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor.; "horrible like raw and putrid flesh" |
| ~ putrescent | becoming putrid.; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses" |
| ~ old | of long duration; not new.; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" |
| ~ unoriginal | not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual.; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern" |
| adj. | 3. cold, dusty, moth-eaten, stale | lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news" |
| ~ unoriginal | not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual.; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern" |
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