Definition of stop

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Stop (v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage..

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Estophed :: Estophed (imp. & p. p.) of Esto.
Wait :: Wait (v. i.) To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
Tampion :: Tampion (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use..
Stoppled :: Stopple (v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple..
Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it..
March :: March (n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
Becalm :: Becalm (v. t.) To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed..
Pug :: Pug (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2..
Stond :: Stond (n.) Stop; halt; hindrance.
Preclude :: Preclude (v.) To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede..
Stop :: Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop..
Histophyly :: Histophyly (n.) The tribal history of cells, a division of morphophyly..
Fipple :: Fipple (n.) A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music..
Uncheckable :: Uncheckable (a.) Not capable of being checked or stopped.
Check :: Check (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
Face :: Face (v. t.) To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle..
Deoppilation :: Deoppilation (n.) Removal of whatever stops up the passages.
Stopcock :: Stop (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed..
Spile :: Spile (n.) A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask..
Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust..
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