All stonewall synonyms
stoneΒ·wall
S s verb stonewall
- cancel out β If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- obscure β (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- negate β to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- glooming β total or partial darkness; dimness.
- muddied β abounding in or covered with mud.
- doublespeak β evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- hang fire β a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- cover all bases β take full precautions
- doublecross β To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- cross β If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- counter check β a check available at a bank for the use of depositors in making withdrawals, orig. kept in supply on a counter
- jive β swing music or early jazz.
- grayed β Simple past tense and past participle of gray.
- housed β a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- beg the question β If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect.
- countercheck β a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
- obstruct β to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- mince words β speak tentatively, tactfully
- muddying β Cause to become covered in or full of mud.
- filibuster β U.S. Politics. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority. an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. a member of a legislature who makes such a speech.
- feign β to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
- blinded β unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- evade β Escape or avoid, esp. by cleverness or trickery.
- four-flush β to bluff.
- elude β Evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
- impede β to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- feinted β a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
- filibustering β Present participle of filibuster.
- hards β not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hazed β an aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors.
- fuzzed β loose, light, fibrous, or fluffy matter.
- counter-checking β a check that opposes or restrains.
- jazzed β music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- fence β a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- muddy the waters β If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
- chambered β having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- blinding β A blinding light is extremely bright.
- fly in the face of β to move through the air using wings.
- look after β to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- chambering β a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
noun stonewall
- equivocation β The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- deceptiveness β apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- obliqueness β The characteristic of being oblique.
- evasion β The action of evading something.
- coverup β an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
- abnegation β a giving up of rights, etc.; self-denial; renunciation
- copout β an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
- nixing β nothing.
- amphibology β ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper