stop
— Verb
– English
～ stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
stop
— Verb
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～ interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
stop
— Verb
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～ prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
stop
— Verb
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～ cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
stop
— Verb
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～ seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
stop dead
— Verb
– English
～ stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze"
stop over
— Verb
– English
～ interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
stop over
— Verb
– English
～ interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight; "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"
stop
— Verb
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～ stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"
stop
— Verb
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～ render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
stop
— Verb
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～ 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"
stopcock
— Noun
– English
～ faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
stopes
— Noun
– English
～ birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
stopgap
— Noun
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～ something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
stoplight
— Noun
– English
～ a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections
stoplight
— Noun
– English
～ a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop
stopover
— Noun
– English
～ a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
stopover
— Noun
– English
～ a stopping place on a journey; "there is a stopover to change planes in Chicago"
stoppable
— Adjective
– English
～ capable of being stopped; "if we pick up our pace he may be stoppable"
stoppage
— Noun
– English
～ the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"