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stonewall is a verb meaning "obstruct or hinder any discussion". It carries 2 recorded senses.
obstruct or hinder any discussion
“Nixon stonewalled the Watergate investigation”
“When she doesn't like to face a problem, she simply stonewalls”
engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate
“The President stonewalled when he realized the plot was being uncovered by a journalist”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stonewall come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.