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Noun stopping has 2 senses
- fillet, stopping - fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
--1 is a kind of fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
- stopping - the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch; "the violinist's stopping was excellent"
--2 is a kind of playing
--2 has particulars: double stopping
Verb stop has 11 senses
- stop, halt - come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
Antonyms: start, go, get going
Sample sentences:
These cars won't stop
They stop the animals
- discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off - put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
Sample sentence:
They stop moving
- stop, halt, block, kibosh - stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
--3 is one way to prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
Sample sentence:
They stop him from writing the letter
- stop, stop over - interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
--4 is one way to interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- stop - cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
Antonyms: start, start up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- break, break off, discontinue, stop - prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations"
--6 is one way to end, terminate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back - hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
--7 is one way to defend
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- intercept, stop - seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
--8 is one way to catch, grab, take hold of
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- end, stop, finish, terminate, cease - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar - render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
--10 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- hold on, stop - stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"
--11 is one way to interrupt, break
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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