Definition of stop

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Stop (n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction..

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Suffocate :: Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
Quit :: Quit (a.) To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting..
Dog :: Dog (n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool..
Stem :: Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current..
Preclude :: Preclude (v.) To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede..
Stop :: Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction..
Quit :: Quit (v. i.) To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
Halt :: Halt (a.) Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
Stopping :: Stopping (n.) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
Stop :: Stop (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated..
Ventage :: Ventage (n.) A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent..
Archaeostomatous :: Archaeostomatous (a.) Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up.
Close :: Close (n.) To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door..
Stick :: Stick (v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.
Tarry :: Tarry (v. t.) To wait for; to stay or stop for.
Stealing :: Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
Strangulated :: Strangulated (a.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia..
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate..
Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover..
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