Definition of stop

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Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..

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Trig :: Trig (v. t.) To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid..
Claribella :: Claribella (n.) A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ..
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..
Courb :: Courb (v. i.) To bend; to stop; to bow.
Arrestment :: Arrestment (n.) A stoppage or check.
Gest :: Gest (n.) A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.
Suppressible :: Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage..
Registration :: Registration (v.) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
Avast :: Avast (a.) Cease; stop; stay.
Halt :: Halt (a.) Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
Estophed :: Estophed (imp. & p. p.) of Esto.
Stead :: Stayship (n.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them..
Block :: Block (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way..
Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.
Prevent :: Prevent (v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.
Suspender :: Suspend (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank)..
Plinth :: Plinth (n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column..
Harmonium :: Harmonium (n.) A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops..
Stintedness :: Stintance (n.) Restraint; stoppage.
Deadlock :: Deadlock (n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action..
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