Stop

/stɒp/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To cease moving..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To cease moving.
2. (intransitive) Not to continue.
3. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
4. (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
5. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
6. (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
7. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
8. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

Example Sentences

I stopped at the traffic lights.

The riots stopped when police moved in.

Soon the rain will stop.

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.

This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?

One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.

Synonyms for stop

Antonyms for stop

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Word Forms

• stops
• stopping
• stopped
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• stop
• stoppest
• stoppedst
• stoppeth
• -
• stap
• stahp
• stawp

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