stop
/stɒp/ verb A1- To cease moving. · I stopped at the traffic lights.
- Not to continue. · The riots stopped when police moved in.· Soon the rain will stop.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. · 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.
- To cease; to no longer continue. · One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
- To cause (something) to come to an end. · The referees stopped the fight.
- To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. · Don't let me stop you working.
- To close or block an opening. · He stopped the wound with gauze.· Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens. · To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
Plural stop · He/she/it stops · Past stopped · Past participle stopped · -ing form stopping
Verb forms
- Base form
- stop
- He/she/it
- stops
- Past
- stopped
- Past participle
- stopped
- -ing form
- stopping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- stop by Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, by.
- stop down To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving f...
- stop in To make a brief visit to a place while passing.
- stop into To briefly visit.
- stop off To make a short visit somewhere, on the way to another pl...
- stop out To use an acid-resistant liquid (stopout) to cover the pa...
- stop over To interrupt one's journey for a short (sometimes overnig...
- stop up To fill a hole or cavity, or block (an opening or passage...
From the library
It was almost dark under the trees, for the branches shut out the daylight; but the travelers did not stop, and went on into the forest.
When she had gone several miles she thought she would stop to rest, and so climbed to the top of the fence beside the road and sat down.
“I wished to inquire why you stopped at the Island of Elba?”
At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring.
Other matches
- stop The squark that is the superpartner of a top qu... A1
- stop A C2
- stop by Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- stop down To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens...
- stop in To make a brief visit to a place while passing.
- stop into To briefly visit.
- stop off To make a short visit somewhere, on the way to ...
- stop out To use an acid-resistant liquid
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