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Synonyms for stop

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noun · the event of something ending

“it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill”

noun · the act of stopping something

“the third baseman made some remarkable stops”

noun · a brief stay in the course of a journey

“they made a stopover to visit their friends”

noun · the state of inactivity following an interruption

“the negotiations were in arrest”

noun · a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

“his stop consonants are too aspirated”

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noun · a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

“in England they call a period a ‘stop’”

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noun · a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

“the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically”

noun · a restraint that checks the motion of something

“he used a book as a stop to hold the door open”

noun · an obstruction in a pipe or tube

“we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe”

verb · come to a halt, stop moving

“the car stopped”

verb · put an end to a state or an activity

“Quit teasing your little brother”

verb · stop from happening or developing

“Block his election”

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verb · interrupt a trip

“we stopped at Aunt Mary's house”

verb · hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

“Arrest the downward trend”

verb · seize on its way

“The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace”

verb · have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

“the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed”

verb · render unsuitable for passage

“block the way”

verb · stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

“Hold on a moment!”

Opposites of stop