0 to stop a discussion from developing by refusing to answer questions or by talking in such a way that you prevent other people from giving their opinions:
1 to prevent someone from discovering information by not being helpful or by refusing to answer questions:
[ I ] If you refuse to be interviewed, or stonewall and make it difficult for us to do our job, you might face punishment later.
The stonewalling subscale assesses an individual's refusal to work together with a partner toward conflict resolution.
Because of the severity of conflict associated with problem drinking, stonewalling (emotional disengagement, withdrawal from the relationship) may therefore be a problem for such couples.
All my questions were stonewalled.
Stonewall meets terracotta floor and rough untreated timber roofing boards.
It was complete even to the tin openers, but we were stonewalled.
He seems to be on a sticky wicket today and is stonewalling against everything.
I believe that universities have been stonewalling against the technical colleges.
I have written to it about many of these matters and have received only stonewalling answers.
