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stalled out

stalled out is the simple past and past participle of stall out.

Meaning of stall out

Verb

stall out (third-person singular simple present stalls out, present participle stalling out, simple past and past participle stalled out)

  1. (intransitive, usually, motor, aircraft) To stall completely; to come to an end or quit through stalling
    • My car was running fine and then, for no reason, it stalled out.
    Synonyms:
    sputter out
  2. (intransitive, usually, hurricane) To slow, come to a halt, and remain; to linger
    • The hurricane is expected to make landfall and then stall out, dumping several inches of rain over several days.

Questions about stalled out

What is stalled out the simple past and past participle of?
Stalled out is the simple past and past participle of stall out.

Words near stalled out in the dictionary

  1. Stallcup
  2. Stallcups
  3. stalled
  4. stalled for time
  5. stalled off
  6. stalled out
  7. staller
  8. stallers
  9. stallership
  10. stallerships
  11. stallfed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stalled out (page history and authors); stall out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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