stale
adjective
[ steɪl ]
• (of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.
• "stale bread"
Similar:
dry,
dried out,
hard,
hardened,
old,
past its best,
past its sell-by date,
off,
mouldy,
rotten,
decayed,
unfresh,
rancid,
rank,
stale
verb
• make or become stale.
• "she would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now"
Origin:
Middle English (describing beer in the sense ‘clear from long standing, strong’): probably from Anglo-Norman French and Old French, from estaler ‘to halt’; compare with the verb stall.
stale
verb
• (of an animal, especially a horse) urinate.
• "the horse staled while he was riding"
Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps from Old French estaler ‘come to a stand, halt’ (compare with stale1).
