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stonewalled

/stohn-wawl/US // ˈstoʊnˌwɔl //UK // (ˌstəʊnˈwɔːl) //

搪塞,搪塞过去,搪塞的,搪塞过去的

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to engage in stonewalling.
    • : British. filibuster.
    • : Cricket. to play a defensive game, as by persistently blocking the ball instead of batting it for distance and runs.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Informal. to block, stall, or resist intentionally: lobbying efforts to stonewall passage of the legislation.
    • : British. to obstruct in Parliament, especially by excessive or prolonged debate.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or characteristic of stonewalling: a new round of stonewall tactics.

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Examples

  • They are going to stonewall and drag this process out hoping New Yorkers aren’t paying attention so partisan legislators can draw their own maps.

  • Leadership concerns continued to fester that year after the university hired a marketing executive from Michigan State University who state prosecutors say was part of an effort to stonewall an investigation into disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar.

  • You can’t stonewall the Nets’ offense, so I think it would make more sense to try to cause havoc and force turnovers, and Giannis is one of the best at that in the league.

  • Sanders says he has been stonewalled from receiving vital documents and information that could shed more light, such as police radio transmissions from that day.

  • Hospital officials stonewalled interview requests and refused to answer dozens of questions.

  • His nickname, given to him at the Battle of Gettysburg and which he kept for the rest of his life, was Stonewall Jim.

  • Excerpted from Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne.

  • The video makes clear the struggle for marriage equality in the context of the wider post-Stonewall gay civil rights movement.

  • By then, a revolution had begun with the 1969 riot at the mob-owned Stonewall Inn in New York.

  • Transgender people played an integral role at Stonewall, and we are due respect in our own extended community.

  • Their soldiers' confidence in Stonewall Jackson and Lee doubled the effective strength of their armies.

  • Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead.

  • This abode of the dead is known as the Stonewall Jackson cemetery, in honor of that brave and true-hearted soldier.

  • The rest of the night was spent in retailing for his instruction stories of the ways of Stonewall Jackson.

  • Among them was the brigade that a twelvemonth before won on yonder hill the proud sobriquet of Stonewall.