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Stop
verb (past & past part. stopped; pres. part. stopping) 1.Come to a halt, stop moving. Synonym: halt. "She stopped in front of a store window" 3.Stop from happening or developing. Synonyms: block, halt, kibosh. "Halt the process" 4.Interrupt a trip. Synonym: stop over. "They stopped for three days in Florence" 5.Cause to stop. "Stop the thief" 7.Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of. Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, hold back, turn back. "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia" , "Contain the rebel movement" , "Turn back the tide of communism" 9.Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical. Synonyms: cease, end, finish, terminate. "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other" , "My property ends by the bushes" , "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" 11.Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments. Synonym: hold on. noun 1.The event of something ending. Synonym: halt. 2.The act of stopping something. Synonym: stoppage. "His stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" 4.The state of inactivity following an interruption. Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage. "Held them in check" , "During the halt he got some lunch" , "The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow" , "He spent the entire stop in his seat" 5.A spot where something halts or pauses. 7.A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations. Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, point. 8.(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes. 9.A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens. Synonym: diaphragm. 10.A restraint that checks the motion of something. Synonym: catch.
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