All stop synonyms
stop
S s verb stop
- goof around β to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
- gummed β covered with a gummy substance.
- eventuate β Occur as a result.
- fly the coop β an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- entrammel β To hamper by entangling.
- iced β of or made of ice: ice shavings; an ice sculpture.
- hold in β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- cut it out β to stop doing what one is doing
- hostelling β Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- choke β When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
- buffaloed β any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- high-five β a gesture of greeting, good-fellowship, or triumph in which one person slaps the upraised palm of the hand against that of another.
- beat off β to drive back; repel
- freeze out β the act of freezing; state of being frozen.
- waterproofed β Having been made waterproof.
- interdict β Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
- garroting β a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- block β A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- hinder β to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- nested β (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- get around β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- detraining β to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- waterproofing β Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
- cut out β If you cut something out, you remove or separate it from what surrounds it using scissors or a knife.
- bollix β to make a muddle of; bungle; botch
- inned β (used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits): walking in the park.
- cut short β to stop abruptly before the end
- lapse β an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- cover up β If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- damping β moistening or wetting
noun stop
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- breakoff β an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
- cessation β The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- cunctation β delay
- embolus β A blood clot, air bubble, piece of fatty deposit, or other object that has been carried in the bloodstream to lodge in a vessel and cause an embolism.
- finis β end; conclusion.
- weekend β the end of a week, especially the period of time between Friday evening and Monday morning: We spent the weekend at Virginia Beach.
- destination β The destination of someone or something is the place to which they are going or being sent.
- discontinuance β the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
- jaggedness β The state of being jagged.
- discontinuation β a breach or interruption of continuity or unity: Progress was delayed by repeated discontinuations of work.
- caesura β (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
- discontinuity β lack of continuity; irregularity: The plot of the book was marred by discontinuity.
- end β Come or bring to a final point; finish.