draw up
rein up
heave to
all standing
seize up
arrest
hold
halt
haltingly
stall
stay
bring to an end
brick wall
unrail
bring up
stoppingly
bring an end to
lock up
balk
let up
stop
suspend
lin
devall
run afoul of
bog in
ceasing
cess
skip a beat
abrupt
unlisten
grind to a halt
rest
unnotice
pick up the threads of
leave off
pausingly
pausal
drop
discomposingly
put the kibosh on
eat away at
unfasten
breaking off
pausable
interferingly
contraveningly
-pause
curtness
abruption
interruptable
stilled
die out
nark
pausing
cease
stumblingly
delay
detain
shut
kick out
refreeze
scrattle
crispature
broken
seesaw
bring up short
awake
sever
upset
unhappen
reinterrupt
underminingly
unclew
abort
squab
discoordinating
put one's hands on
stop dead
hold the phone
stound
freeze
set the heather on fire
impinge
stagger
mess with
hiatus
blanch
pausal
pausable
interruptable
stilled
broken
abrupt
squab
discoordinating
all standing
haltingly
stoppingly
pausingly
discomposingly
interferingly
contraveningly
stumblingly
underminingly
arrest
balk
ceasing
breaking off
curtness
abruption
pausing
crispature
upset
freeze
hiatus
draw up
rein up
heave to
seize up
arrest
hold
halt
stall
stay
bring to an end
brick wall
unrail
bring up
bring an end to
lock up
let up
stop
suspend
lin
devall
run afoul of
bog in
cess
skip a beat
abrupt
unlisten
grind to a halt
rest
unnotice
pick up the threads of
leave off
drop
put the kibosh on
eat away at
unfasten
die out
nark
cease
delay
detain
shut
kick out
refreeze
scrattle
seesaw
bring up short
awake
sever
unhappen
reinterrupt
unclew
abort
put one's hands on
stop dead
stound
set the heather on fire
impinge
stagger
mess with
freeze
blanch
verb
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- organize or be responsible for
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- contain or hold; have within
- have room for; hold without crowding
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be valid, applicable, or true
- assert or affirm
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- protect against a challenge or attack
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- hold the attention of
- remain committed to
- resist or confront with resistance
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- stop dealing with
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- keep from departing
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- aim, point, or direct
- declare to be
- be in accord; be in agreement
- keep from exhaling or expelling
noun
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- time during which some action is awaited
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- a stronghold
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
verb
- To come to a standstill.
- To stop suddenly.
- To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To employ delaying tactics against.
noun
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- The space left by excavation between pillars.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
verb
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
adv
verb
- cause to come to a sudden stop
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- look after a child until it is an adult
- promote from a lower position or rank
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- make reference to
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
verb
verb
- To cease responding; to freeze.
- To invest in something long term.
- To stop moving; to seize.
- To close all doors and windows (of a place) securely.
- To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's wheels to lock up (stop spinning).
- To lose one's forward momentum; to freeze.
- To imprison or incarcerate (someone).
- To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze.
- To stop spinning due to excessive braking torque.
- To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction.
noun
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
verb
- come to a halt, stop moving
- cause to end
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop from happening or developing
- interrupt a trip
- prevent completion
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- render unsuitable for passage
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
noun
- the event of something ending
- the act of stopping something
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
verb
- To halt something temporarily.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
noun
verb
adj
- Curt in manner.
- Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
- Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
- Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
- Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
noun
verb
- To come to a pause or an end; end.
- To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- To rely or depend on.
- To be or to put into a state of rest.
- To lean, lie, or lay.
- To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To sleep; slumber.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- To lie dormant.
- To stay, remain, be situated.
noun
- A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- Absence of motion.
- Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- A final position after death.
- A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- That which remains.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
verb
verb
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
noun
verb
- To close, to stop from being open.
- To confine in an enclosed area.
- To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
- To close, to stop being open.
- To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
noun
- The act or time of shutting; close.
- The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
- A door or cover; a shutter.
- A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
adj
verb
adj
- Interrupted; not continuous.
- Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
- Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- Badly designed or implemented.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- Split or ruptured.
- Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Breached; violated; not kept.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- Uneven.
verb
noun
- An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
- A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
- A series of up-and-down movements.
- A series of alternating movements or feelings.
adj
noun
- An overturn.
- An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- Disturbance or disruption.
- An upset stomach.
verb
- To be upset or knocked over.
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- To tip or overturn (something).
- To defeat unexpectedly.
- To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
- To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
adj
verb
verb
- To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
- To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- To terminate a process prior to completion.
- To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
noun
adj
verb
- To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.
- To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
noun
- A baby rook.
- A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken.
- The meat of such a baby bird used as food.
- A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
- A person of a short, fat figure.
adv
verb
verb
noun
- A receptacle for holding small beer.
- A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
- A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
- A stand; a stop.
- A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
- A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
- Astonishment; amazement.
noun
- A halt of a regular operation.
- A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
- A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
verb
- (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
- To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
- To prevent from showing any visible change.
- Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
- To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
- Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- To cause someone to become motionless.
- To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
- To be affected by extreme cold.
- (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
verb
- To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To cause to reel or totter.
noun
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- One who attends a stag night.
- The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
verb
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
- To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To grow or become white.
- To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
- To use evasion.
- To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
- To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding
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