v
(transitive, obsolete) To escape.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To provide support or the promise of support to.
v
To stop short and refuse to go on.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To maintain one's position against (someone) in a debate; to stand one's ground against.
v
(nautical) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To support; to keep from falling or sinking.
v
(transitive) To lay aside; stop; cancel.
n
A stop; a halting; delay.
v
(intransitive) To defer (to something).
v
(idiomatic) To act so as to end a repeating pattern of harmful or otherwise negative behavior.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To apply; to employ something to achieve an intended effect.
v
To arrest (someone or something's) forward motion; to halt before a goal is reached.
v
To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
v
(transitive with to) Force (something) to stop.
v
(idiomatic) To cease the activity for the day.
v
(transitive) To entangle.
v
To make a stop; to pause; with at.
v
(idiomatic) To attempt to prevent a problem that has already occurred.
v
To reach a point where little progress is being made; to come to an impasse; to stop.
v
(informal, UK, idiomatic) To stop work, especially when taking industrial action.
v
(intransitive) To come to a halt.
v
(idiomatic) To stop talking about the topic at hand.
v
To impede or bar by estoppel.
v
To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
v
(transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To overcome.
v
(idiomatic) To give somebody cause for concern.
v
(intransitive, of an activity) To come to a standstill, or cease to be productive or make progress, due to an obstacle.
v
(intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
v
To quit, to stop engaging in a line of work or type of activity.
v
(intransitive) To decline; sink; go down.
v
(idiomatic) To pause (an activity); stop, terminate.
v
(intransitive) To delay taking action.
v
(idiomatic) To withstand scrutiny or criticism; to be valid.
v
(transitive) Not to vomit.
v
(transitive) To postpone action on something.
v
(transitive) To bury (someone).
v
(intransitive) To go out of active service.
v
(idiomatic) To agree that there has been enough discussion, study, etc. and that it is time to stop.
v
To press and hold down (a button)
v
(by extension, figuratively) To stop making progress temporarily; to wait or stand still.
v
(intransitive, nautical, archaic) To stand out to sea.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To be at the bottom of (a league)
v
(idiomatic) To move ahead.
v
Alternative form of pull in one's horns [(idiomatic) To become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to exercise restraint; to yield or capitulate.]
v
(transitive) To command or force someone to drive their vehicle to the side of the road or curb and come to a stop.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) to cease to support; to halt
v
To postpone; to stop focusing or working on (something) until it can be finished at a later time.
v
(idiomatic) To terminate or abolish something.
v
(idiomatic) To establish oneself in a place; to become settled.
v
Alternative form of put the brakes on [(idiomatic, transitive) To stop (an event, action, or process) or to slow it down.]
v
To put the kibosh on something; to bring an end to something.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To stop (an event, action, or process) or to slow it down.
v
(nautical) To yield or give way.
v
(transitive) To shut again.
v
To stem, or move against.
v
(transitive) To turn one's back on, to show one's (clothed) backside to, as a sign of disrespect.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To stop or turn off.
n
Alternative spelling of shutoff [A valve used to turn something off.]
n
The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.
v
(dated, UK, university slang) To close one's door as an indication that visitors are not welcome.
v
To keep close; to keep secret.
n
That which stanches or checks a flow.
v
(idiomatic) To wait; to stop pursuing, stop fighting, or relax from a heightened readiness posture.
n
The act by which something is staunched or stopped.
v
(transitive, South Africa, obsolete) To be shifted sideways.
v
(separable) To measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
n
(obsolete) stop; halt; hindrance
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To stop suddenly.
v
(intransitive) To make a short visit somewhere, on the way to another place.
v
(intransitive) To interrupt one's journey for a short (sometimes overnight) stay; to stop off.
v
To come to a sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving a vehicle.
v
(idiomatic) To prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along.
v
(idiomatic) to recover by interrupting a string of losses, disappointments, etc.
n
A pause or halt of some activity.
n
The act of something that stops; a halt.
v
Obsolete spelling of stopped; simple past tense and past participle of stop
v
(idiomatic) To lose interest, and start thinking about something else.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To cease paying attention to something.
v
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cast about; make a circuit; travel around (a place).
v
(chiefly Scotland) To turn about, turn around.
v
(transitive, nonstandard, rare) Error for withdraw.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To set (a place) with an ambush.
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