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stop

a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"

the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"

(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops"

the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"

a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"

cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"

come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"

interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"

stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

Synonyms:

• English horn,
• abandon,
• abjure,
• abort,
• afterthought,
• allophone,
• alveolar,
• anchorage,
• apico-alveolar,
• apico-dental,
• arrest,
• arrestation,
• articulation,
• aspiration,
• assimilation,
• awe,
• baffle,
• ban,
• bar,
• barricade,
• barrier,
• bassoon,
• bearing rein,
• beat off,
• belay,
• bell,
• bilabial,
• bind,
• bit,
• blank wall,
• blind alley,
• blind gut,
• block,
• block flute,
• block up,
• blockade,
• blockage,
• blocking,
• bombard,
• bottleneck,
• boundary,
• bourdon,
• bourn,
• box,
• brake,
• break,
• break of,
• break off,
• break the habit,
• bring to,
• bring up,
• bring up short,
• bung,
• bureaucratic delay,
• cacuminal,
• caesura,
• call on,
• call upon,
• calm,
• calm down,
• cancel,
• caulk,
• cease,
• cease fire,
• cecum,
• cello,
• cerebral,
• cessation,
• chain,
• check,
• check valve,
• checkmate,
• checkrein,
• chink,
• chock,
• choke,
• choke off,
• choke up,
• choking,
• choking off,
• claribel,
• clarinet,
• clarion,
• clog,
• clog up,
• close,
• close off,
• close up,
• closing,
• closing up,
• cock,
• colon,
• come off,
• come up short,
• comma,
• concert flute,
• conclude,
• conclusion,
• confine,
• congest,
• congestion,
• consonant,
• constipate,
• constipation,
• continuant,
• cork,
• corner,
• cornet,
• cornopean,
• costiveness,
• counter,
• countercheck,
• cover,
• cromorna,
• cul-de-sac,
• curb,
• curb bit,
• cure,
• cushion,
• cut it out,
• cut off,
• cut out,
• cut short,
• cutoff,
• cymbel,
• dam,
• dam up,
• damp,
• dampen,
• damper,
• daunt,
• dead end,
• dead set,
• dead stand,
• dead stop,
• dead-end street,
• deaden,
• deadlock,
• deafen,
• debarment,
• delay,
• delayage,
• delayed reaction,
• dental,
• depot,
• desist,
• desist from,
• desistance,
• destination,
• detain,
• detention,
• deter,
• determent,
• determine,
• deterrence,
• diacritical mark,
• diapason,
• die down,
• diphthong,
• disaccustom,
• discontinuance,
• discontinue,
• discourage,
• discouragement,
• dishearten,
• dissimilation,
• disuse,
• doorstop,
• double take,
• drag,
• drag sail,
• dragging,
• draw rein,
• draw up,
• drift anchor,
• drift sail,
• drive back,
• drogue,
• drop,
• drop in,
• drop it,
• dulciana,
• dull,
• dwindle,
• dying down,
• ebb,
• ebbing,
• embolism,
• embolus,
• end,
• end stop,
• endgame,
• ending,
• epenthetic vowel,
• estoppel,
• explosive,
• extremity,
• faucet,
• faze,
• fence,
• fend,
• fend off,
• fetch up,
• fetter,
• fill,
• fill up,
• final whistle,
• finish,
• finish up,
• flute stop,
• forbiddance,
• foreclosure,
• forestalling,
• forswear,
• foul,
• foundation stop,
• fourniture,
• freeze,
• full stop,
• gamba,
• gedeckt,
• gemshorn,
• give over,
• give up,
• glide,
• glottal,
• glottalization,
• goal,
• gorge,
• grinding halt,
• gun,
• guttural,
• halt,
• hang fire,
• hang-up,
• harbor,
• harmonic flute,
• have done with,
• haven,
• hinder,
• hindrance,
• hold,
• hold at bay,
• hold back,
• hold off,
• hold up,
• holdback,
• holdup,
• hole,
• hybrid stop,
• impasse,
• impede,
• impediment,
• infarct,
• infarction,
• interim,
• interrupt,
• jam,
• jam up,
• juncture,
• keep at bay,
• keep back,
• keep off,
• kick,
• knock it off,
• koppel flute,
• labial,
• labialization,
• labiodental,
• labiovelar,
• lag,
• lagging,
• larigot,
• laryngeal,
• last stop,
• lateral,
• lay off,
• lay over,
• layover,
• leave off,
• let go,
• lid,
• lingual,
• liquid,
• lock,
• lockout,
• lodge,
• logjam,
• look in,
• lull,
• make late,
• manner of articulation,
• martingale,
• melodia,
• mixture,
• modification,
• molder,
• monophthong,
• moratorium,
• morphophoneme,
• muffle,
• mutation stop,
• mute,
• nasal,
• nazard,
• nol-pros,
• not pursue with,
• oboe,
• obstacle,
• obstipate,
• obstipation,
• obstruct,
• obstruction,
• obviation,
• occlusive,
• octave,
• organ stop,
• overawe,
• pacify,
• pack,
• pack in,
• palatal,
• paperasserie,
• parasitic vowel,
• parry,
• pause,
• pay a visit,
• peak,
• peg,
• pelham,
• period,
• perorate,
• peter out,
• pharyngeal,
• pharyngealization,
• phone,
• phoneme,
• piccolo,
• pin,
• plein jeu,
• plosive,
• plug,
• plug up,
• point,
• port,
• posaune,
• preclusion,
• prevent,
• prevention,
• principal,
• prohibition,
• prothetic vowel,
• pull up,
• punctuation,
• punctuation marks,
• push back,
• put back,
• put behind one,
• put paid to,
• put up,
• quiesce,
• quiet,
• quieten,
• quint,
• quintaten,
• quit,
• rank,
• ranket,
• rebuff,
• red tape,
• red-tapeism,
• red-tapery,
• reed stop,
• reference,
• reference mark,
• refrain,
• refrain from,
• register,
• relinquish,
• remora,
• renounce,
• repel,
• reprieve,
• repulse,
• resign,
• resolve,
• respite,
• rest,
• restrain,
• retard,
• retardance,
• retardation,
• retroflex,
• roadblock,
• rohr flute,
• run in,
• scotch,
• scrap,
• scratch,
• scrub,
• sea anchor,
• sea cock,
• sealing off,
• see,
• segmental phoneme,
• semicolon,
• semivowel,
• sesquialtera,
• shackle,
• shake,
• shawm,
• sit-down strike,
• slacken,
• slow,
• slow down,
• slow-up,
• slowdown,
• slowness,
• snaffle,
• soft-pedal,
• soften,
• sojourn,
• sojournment,
• sonant,
• sonority,
• soothe,
• speech sound,
• spigot,
• spike,
• spile,
• spill,
• spitz flute,
• spoke,
• stage,
• stalemate,
• stall,
• stanch,
• stand,
• standoff,
• standstill,
• station,
• staunch,
• stave off,
• stay,
• stay of execution,
• stay over,
• stayover,
• stem,
• stem the tide,
• stench,
• stick,
• stillstand,
• stop by,
• stop cold,
• stop dead,
• stop off,
• stop over,
• stop short,
• stop up,
• stop-off,
• stopgap,
• stopover,
• stoppage,
• stopped diapason,
• stopped flute,
• stopper,
• stopping,
• stopping place,
• stopple,
• strangulation,
• strike,
• string diapason,
• string stop,
• stuff,
• stuff up,
• stymie,
• subdue,
• subside,
• subsidence,
• suppress,
• surd,
• suspension,
• swear off,
• syllabic nucleus,
• syllabic peak,
• syllable,
• take a break,
• take the pledge,
• tap,
• tarry,
• terminal,
• terminal point,
• terminate,
• termination,
• terminus,
• throw off,
• thwart,
• tie-up,
• tierce,
• time lag,
• tittle,
• tone down,
• trammel,
• tranquilize,
• transition sound,
• tremolo,
• triphthong,
• trombone,
• trumpet,
• turn aside,
• twelfth,
• unda maris,
• valve,
• velar,
• vibrato,
• viola,
• visit,
• vocable,
• vocalic,
• vocoid,
• voice,
• voiced sound,
• voiceless sound,
• voicing,
• voix celeste,
• vowel,
• vox angelica,
• vox humana,
• wait,
• waive,
• walkout,
• wall,
• wane,
• waning,
• ward off,
• wean,
• wind up,
• work stoppage