nip in the bud
nark
cease
stall
stop dead
hit the buffers
put a block on
p-
stop
halt
cess
leave off
shut off
kick out
hold it
prevent
check
conk
let up
redlight
shut
put the kibosh on
heave to
abort
stopping
intermittently
seize up
draw up
abrupt
stop short
cut off
get on with
cut
kibosh
butt out
stop over
rein up
resume
lay off
desist
suspend
stoppage
come to a stop
come to rest
shut down
kevork
pull up
period
halting
awaken
leave alone
hold the phone
hold on
belt up
withdraw
balk
lin
scare off
autostop
stound
sustentatio
pull up short
delay
stoppingly
devall
abruptio
instop
detain
obturation
shut it
button
stay
clamp down on
break off
stick
wake
break short
give up
cut short
starting
end
terminate
belay
from first to last
nize
cut out
intermittently
stoppingly
stopping
stop
stoppage
period
halting
balk
sustentatio
abruptio
obturation
starting
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nark
cease
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stop dead
hit the buffers
put a block on
stop
halt
cess
leave off
shut off
kick out
hold it
prevent
check
conk
let up
redlight
shut
put the kibosh on
heave to
abort
seize up
draw up
abrupt
stop short
cut off
get on with
cut
kibosh
butt out
stop over
rein up
resume
lay off
desist
suspend
come to a stop
come to rest
shut down
kevork
pull up
awaken
leave alone
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withdraw
lin
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instop
detain
button
stay
clamp down on
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stick
wake
break short
give up
cut short
end
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belay
nize
cut out
verb
- 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 come to a standstill.
- 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
verb
prefix
verb
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop from happening or developing
- interrupt a trip
- cause to end
- 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
noun
- the act of stopping something
- the event of something ending
- 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 make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To inspect; to examine.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To control, limit, or halt.
- To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To mark with a check pattern.
adj
noun
- The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
- A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- An inspection or examination.
- A small chink or crack.
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
verb
- To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- 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 terminate a process prior to completion.
- To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
noun
verb
adj
- Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
- Curt in manner.
- 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
- cease, stop
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- make an incision or separation
- discharge from a group
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- make out and issue
- cut and assemble the components of
- intentionally fail to attend
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- give the appearance or impression of
- move (one's fist)
- pass directly and often in haste
- pass through or across
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- stop filming
- make a recording of
- record a performance on (a medium)
- create by duplicating data
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- perform or carry out
- function as a cutting instrument
- allow incision or separation
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- reap or harvest
- fell by sawing; hew
- penetrate injuriously
- refuse to acknowledge
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- have a reducing effect
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- have grow through the gums
- grow through the gums
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
adj
- with parts removed
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- mixed with water
noun
- a share of the profits
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- a step on some scale
- a wound made by cutting
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
adj
verb
verb
- To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
- In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
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.
verb
verb
- To cause (a person) to stop.
- To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- To fetch for display on a screen.
- To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- To lift upwards or vertically.
- To pull forward.
- To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
noun
- A decisive end to something; a stop.
- A length of time.
- The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
- A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
- A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
- The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
- An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
- A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
- A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
- Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
- Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
- A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
- The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
- Female menstruation; an episode of this.
- A row in the periodic table of the elements.
- Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
intj
adj
verb
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
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 stop, check, block.
- 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 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
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
verb
verb
noun
- A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- A bud.
- An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The center (bullseye) of the house.
- The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- The end of a runway.
- Synonym of adjuster.
- The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- A button man; a professional assassin.
- A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- The clitoris.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
verb
- stop or halt
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- stay put (in a certain place)
- dwell
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- remain behind
- stay behind
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- stop a judicial process
- fasten with stays
- overcome or allay
noun
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
verb
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- To persist.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
noun
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
adj
verb
- (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
noun
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- A number of vultures assembled together.
- A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- The area behind something, typically a rapidly-moving object.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- The movement of water created when an animal or a person moves through water.
verb
- To stop or quit (an activity, etc.)
- To admit defeat, capitulate
- Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, &c.
- To abandon (someone or something)
- To relinquish (something)
- To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.
- To surrender (someone or something)
- To lose hope concerning (someone or something)
verb
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- put an end to
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- a final part or section
- a final state
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the part you are expected to play
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
prep_phrase
verb
- To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).
- To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- To intercept.
- To arrange or prepare.
- To remove, omit.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
- To oust, to replace.
- To separate from a herd.
- To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- To leave suddenly.
adj
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