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We think the answer is "STALE" which means:
- adjective
- • Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age adjective satellite
- • Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new verb
- • Urinate, of cattle and horses noun
- • Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
- • A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
- • The posts and rungs composing a ladder.
- • The stem of a plant.
- • The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
- • A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.
- • A stalemate; a stalemated game.
- • An ambush.
- • A band of armed men or hunters.
- • The main force of an army.
- • (livestock) urine, especially used of horses and cattle.
- • A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
- • Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.
- • An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.
- • A partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another.
- • A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse.
- • A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.
- • Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.
An example sentence would be:
- • "The bread was stale and dry."
- • "The air in the room smelled stale."
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