Stopping synonyms
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Part of speech:
A stay or visit.
A stop, esp. a temporary one, as in marching; pause or discontinuance
The collection of books and other reading materials at a library.
An act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.
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A period of waiting
A check is defined as a mark put next to something written down to show it has been verified or completed.
The interval of time between two events.
A block is defined as an area of four streets that goes in a square, or a single street within an area of four streets, or the length of one of those streets.
The definition of a stand-down is a state of rest or ease after a state of alert.
An end
breaking-off
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shutting-up
(Cooking) A lean, boneless piece of meat
To cease or discontinue:
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To cease subscribing to (a publication).
To arrive at or attain the end of:
(Sports) To block an opponent
To fasten with or as with a bar
To create a blockade against.
To close off or block with a barricade.
(Football) To catch (a pass) as an interception
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To be capable of holding:
To stop; check.
Check means to test, examine, compare or inspect something to see if it is as it should be.
To fail to fulfill; cancel:
To keep in check; restrain:
To lie in wait for and attack; ambush
The definition of thwart is to hinder or stop something from happening.
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To cease for a period; delay.
(Archaic) To stop; end
To end, prohibit, or keep something from being known, heard, discussed, or seen.
(Intransitive) To die of suffocation.
To stop or check; esp., to dam up (a river, etc.), or to stop or check as if by damming up
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Interrupt is defined as to stop or cause something to stop for a period of time.
(Now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
To bar or hinder the progress of; obstruct or delay
To hinder is defined as to restrain or hold something back.
To keep oneself from doing something; hold back; refrain:
To detain is defined as to keep someone somewhere or cause someone to be unable to proceed.
To dishearten or dispirit:
To close up; obstruct:
To lead (a dog being walked) to the curb or some other place where it may pass its waste matter
(Baseball) To modify (a bat) by drilling a hole in the large end and filling it with cork or rubber: this practice is believed to give the batter an unfair advantage and is illegal
To come to a close; end; finish
To end or suspend operations
To fill with obstructions or with thick, sticky matter; stop up; jam
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The definition of circumvent means to get around or surround someone or something.
To hold (a bat, golf club, etc.) away from the end of the handle and closer toward the middle
To move a piece placing (an opponent's king) under threat of being taken on the next move with no way of escape or defense possible.
To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
To slow down or stop with or as with a brake
To see, look upon, or gaze at:
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To serve as the end person for (a tug-of-war team)
To close a session or meeting for a time
To approach and speak to; greet first, before being greeted, esp. in an intrusive way
To assign to or place in a station; post
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
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To live somewhere temporarily, as on a visit; stay for a while
To control or keep in check.
To end, limit, or restrain, as by intimidation or other action:
(Physics) To present an opposing force to; push back or away from by a force:
To prohibit is to forbid someone from doing something or to prevent something from being done.
(Obs.) To act in anticipation of (an event or a fixed time)
Preclude is defined as to prevent something from happening or to prevent someone from doing something.
(Gram.) To put at or near the end of the sentence
pluging
To fill (a hole) tightly with or as if with a plug; stop up.
To pause is defined as to stop for a brief period of time.
To close, shut, or block (a passage)
To block or stop up (a passage) with obstacles or impediments; dam; clog
To surrender is defined as to give up control of something or to give something up to another.
To leave one's country because of disapproval of its political policies and settle in another that opposes such policies
To come to an end; stop or expire
To end (a dispute)
To hold back; keep oneself (from doing something); forbear
Relinquish is defined as to let go of or surrender something.
To turn away (one's gaze, for example).
(Intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
To go to see in order to aid or console:
To visit for consultation:
(Football) To kick the ball
To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
To withdraw one's support or help from, especially in spite of duty, allegiance, or responsibility; desert:
To impede movement or use of:
To move slowly or aimlessly; loaf
To fill to excess; overcrowd
To become full
allowing (antonym)
To let do, happen, etc.; permit; let
expediting (antonym)
Expedite is defined as to make something happen more quickly.
encouraging (antonym)
Encourage is defined as to give someone hope, confidence or support.
advancing (antonym)
To go forward; move ahead
beginning (antonym)
To start doing, acting, going, etc.; get under way
going (antonym)
To bid:
persisting (antonym)
(Intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
continuing (antonym)
To go on again after an interruption; resume
commencing (antonym)
To begin; start; originate
proceeding (antonym)
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.
seeking (related)
Seek is defined as to search or look for something.
stops (related)
stop (related)
Delay or hesitation:
Find another word for stopping. In this page you can discover 116 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for stopping, like: staying, remaining, halt, halting, holding, hesitation, encumbering, wait, check, delay and block.