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NGSL Rank: 346
stop
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Meanings
verb
  • (of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen.
    E.g. his laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun
  • cause (an action, process, or event) to come to an end.
    E.g. this harassment has got to be stopped
  • block or close up (a hole or leak).
    E.g. he tried to stop the hole with the heel of his boot
  • be or behave in a particular way.
    E.g. ‘Why was she so?’ ‘I don't know, you know how dem old people stop.’
noun
  • a cessation of movement or operation.
    E.g. all business came to a stop
  • a set of organ pipes of a particular tone and range of pitch.
  • the effective diameter of a lens.

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