stalled
SaySTAWLDUS/stɔld/UK/stɔːld/
- 1Simple past and past participle of stall.
Negotiations stalled after neither party would compromise.
The engine stalled twice before it finally caught.
Note
A regular -ed form, so one spelling serves as both the past tense and the participle: talks stalled; talks have stalled. Because some uses of stall are transitive, the participle can also be passive. Horses are stalled for the night, and a new officeholder may be stalled in office, an older way of saying installed. The perfect takes have; the passive takes be.
stalled is a form of stall
stall, verb: To come to a halt or standstill. Full entry
- Spelling
- stall → stalled: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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