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Stop \Stop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stopping}.] [OE. stoppen, AS. stoppian (in comp.); akin to
LG. & D. stoppen, G. stopfen, Icel. stoppa, Sw. stoppa, Dan.
stoppe; all probably fr. LL. stopare, stupare, fr. L. stuppa
the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. Cf. {Estop}, {Stuff},
{Stupe} a fomentation.]
1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing;
as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
--Shak.
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2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way,
road, or passage.
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3. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut
in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a
stream, or a flow of blood.
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4. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or
efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain;
to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the
execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the
approaches of old age or infirmity.
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Whose disposition all the world well knows
Will not be rubbed nor stopped. --Shak.
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5. (Mus.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by
pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or
by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
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6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [R.]
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If his sentences were properly stopped. --Landor.
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7. (Naut.) To make fast; to stopper.
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Syn: To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress;
restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.
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{To stop off} (Founding), to fill (a part of a mold) with
sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is
not wanted for the casting.

{To stop the mouth}. See under {Mouth}.
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Stopped \Stopped\, a. (Phonetics)
Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said
of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). --H. Sweet.
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