WordWeb Online

1. (of a nose) blocked
   "a stopped nose";
   - stopped-up, stopped up

1. Come to a halt, cease moving
   "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window";
   - halt
    
2. Put an end to a state or an activity
   "stop teasing your little brother";
   - discontinue, cease, give up, quit, lay off, surcease [archaic]
    
3. Prevent from happening or developing
   "stop the process";
   - halt, block, kibosh [informal], kybosh [informal]
    
4. Interrupt a trip
   "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"; "we stopped over at Aunt Mary's house";
   - stop over
    
5. Cause to end
   "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
    
6. Prevent completion
   "stop the project";
   - break, break off, discontinue
    
7. Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
   "stop the growth of communism in South East Asia";
   - check, turn back, arrest, contain, hold back
    
8. Seize on its way
   "The fighter plane was ordered to stop an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace";
   - intercept
    
9. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
   "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other";
   - end, finish, terminate, cease
    
10. Render unsuitable for passage
    "stop the busy road";
    - barricade, block, blockade, block off, block up, bar
     
11. Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
    "stop a moment!";
    - hold on

See also: keep, obstructed

Type of: block, break, break up, catch, close up, cut off, defend, disrupt, end, forbid, foreclose, forestall, grab, impede, interrupt, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude, preclude, prevent, take hold of, terminate

Antonym: go, start

Encyclopedia: Stop, Or My Dog Will Shoot!