Stopping Synonyms and Antonyms

To go to or seek out the company of in order to socialize.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. visiting
  2. seeing
Fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. staying
  2. remaining
  3. halt
  4. halting
  5. holding
  6. hesitation
  7. pause
  8. encumbering
  9. wait
  10. check
  11. delay
  12. block
  13. stand-down
  14. ending
  15. fillet
  16. closing
  17. breaking-off
  18. deterring
  19. desisting
  20. terminating
  21. ceasing
  22. shutting-up
To desist from, cease, or discontinue (a habit, for example)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. kicking
  2. breaking
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. checking
  2. suspending
  3. immobilizing
  4. containing
  5. idling
  6. arresting
Antonyms:
  1. starting
Put an end to a state or an activity
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. quitting
  2. discontinuing
  3. suspending
  4. closing
  5. relinquishing
  6. ending
  7. desisting
  8. blockading
  9. blocking
  10. terminating
  11. barricading
  12. barring
  13. withholding
  14. remitting
  15. waylaying
  16. thwarting
  17. tarrying
  18. surrendering
  19. finishing
  20. surceasing
  21. suppressing
  22. stifling
  23. defecting
  24. stemming
  25. staying
  26. lulling
  27. interrupting
  28. intermitting
  29. lapsing
  30. ceasing
  31. intercepting
  32. impeding
  33. hindering
  34. forbearing
  35. deterring
  36. detaining
  37. delaying
  38. defeating
  39. settling
  40. damming
  41. curbing
  42. corking
  43. refraining
  44. concluding
  45. clogging
  46. circumventing
  47. choking
  48. checkmating
  49. checking
  50. catching
  51. calling
  52. breaking
  53. halting
  54. braking
  55. beholding
  56. arresting
  57. anchoring
  58. adjourning
  59. accosting
  60. stationing
  61. standing
  62. stalling
  63. withdrawing
  64. stagnating
  65. sojourning
  66. restraining
  67. repressing
  68. repelling
  69. prohibiting
  70. preventing
  71. precluding
  72. postponing
  73. pausing
  74. occluding
  75. obstructing
  76. abandoning
Antonyms:
  1. commencing
  2. starting
  3. beginning
To plug up something, as a hole, space, or container
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. blocking
  2. corking
  3. clogging
  4. congesting
  5. choking
  6. filling
  7. closing
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ceasing
  2. terminating
  3. finishing
  4. ending

Stopping Sentence Examples

  • And why are you stopping here?

  • The officer searched till six o'clock in the evening without even stopping to eat.

  • There's nothing stopping you from finishing school.

  • He darted off the elevator and down the hall, stopping in front of her apartment.

  • Petya cried, stopping outside the door.

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