ALL meanings of staling
stale
S s - adjective staling not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread. 1
- adjective staling musty; stagnant: stale air. 1
- adjective staling having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke. 1
- adjective staling having lost freshness, vigor, quick intelligence, initiative, or the like, as from overstrain, boredom, or surfeit: He had grown stale on the job and needed a long vacation. 1
- adjective staling Law. having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim. 1
- verb without object staling (of livestock, especially horses) to urinate. 1