to become stale

  • 11stale — I. /steɪl / (say stayl) adjective (staler, stalest) 1. not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread. 2. having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke. 3. having lost fresh vigour, quick intelligence,… …

  • 12stale — steɪl v. make or become stale, dry out, spoil adj. not fresh, moldy, spoiled; musty; trite, hackneyed; tired, weary …

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  • 13stale — stale1 adjective (staler, stalest) 1》 (of food) no longer fresh or pleasant to eat. 2》 no longer new and interesting.     ↘(of a person) no longer performing well because of having done something for too long. 3》 (of a cheque or legal claim)… …

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  • 14stale — 1 adjective 1 bread or cake that is stale is no longer fresh or good to eat: go stale: This loaf has gone stale. 2 air that is stale is not fresh or pleasant 3 news or jokes that are stale are no longer interesting or exciting: the same stale old …

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  • 15stale — adj. VERBS ▪ be, look, seem, smell, taste ▪ The room smelled musty and stale. ▪ become, get (usually figurative …

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  • 16age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety — Meaning Origin From Shakespeare s Antony and Cleopatra. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies; …

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  • 17stalely — stale ► ADJECTIVE (staler, stalest) 1) (of food) no longer fresh or pleasant to eat. 2) no longer new and interesting. 3) no longer performing well because of having done something for too long. ► VERB ▪ make or become stale. DERIVATIVES …

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  • 18staleness — stale ► ADJECTIVE (staler, stalest) 1) (of food) no longer fresh or pleasant to eat. 2) no longer new and interesting. 3) no longer performing well because of having done something for too long. ► VERB ▪ make or become stale. DERIVATIVES …

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  • 19French toast — (often known as eggy bread in most of the UK the exception being Scotland and Northern Ireland, pain perdu in French, pain doré in French speaking parts of Canada) is a popular breakfast food in North America and Europe.French toast is made with… …

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  • 20CPU cache — Cache memory redirects here. For the general use, see cache. A CPU cache is a cache used by the central processing unit of a computer to reduce the average time to access memory. The cache is a smaller, faster memory which stores copies of the… …

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