stalling

Meanings

Noun

• a tactic used to mislead or delay

Verb

• postpone doing what one should be doing
• come to a stop
• deliberately delay an event or action
  • "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"
• put into, or keep in, a stall
• experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
• cause an airplane to go into a stall
• cause an engine to stop
  • "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"

Synonyms

conk, dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall