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)
- 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
- 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
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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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