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stalls out

stalls out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 stalls out

What is stalls out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stalls out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stall out.

Words near stalls out in the dictionary

  1. stallons
  2. stallproof
  3. stalls
  4. stalls for time
  5. stalls off
  6. stalls out
  7. Stallses
  8. stallsman
  9. stallsmen
  10. Stallwood
  11. Stallwoods

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stalls 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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