stonewall
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
NeutralRegister
General verb
To obstruct or delay by refusing to answer questions or cooperate.
The regime stonewalled the inspectors for months, denying them access to the disputed sites.
Law verb
To obstruct progress by refusing to cooperate or answer.
When the respondent stonewalled on documents, the tribunal drew an adverse inference.
Business verb
To block progress by refusing to engage or give ground.
They stonewalled every request for financials until we set a hard deadline.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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