stopped
stopt
- v come to a halt, stop moving
the car stopped
She stopped in front of a store window - v put an end to a state or an activity
- v stop from happening or developing
- v interrupt a trip
we stopped at Aunt Mary's house
they stopped for three days in Florence - v cause to stop
- v prevent completion
- v hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- v seize on its way
- v have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- v render unsuitable for passage
- v stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- s (of a nose) blocked
a stopped (or stopped-up) nose
- State police countered with statistics showing that troopers stopped twice as many whites as blacks in 21 months ending in March.
- They stopped, afraid that the noose might have caught around her neck.
- As the sisters approached each other on a street in Lawrence, Mary stopped dead in her tracks.