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STOPPING
- Abandon a specified practice or habit
- Stop moving or operating
- (of a bus or train) Call at a designated place to pick up or let off passengers
- Stay somewhere for a short time
- Cause (an action, process, or event) to come to an end
- Prevent (an action or event) from happening
- Prevent or dissuade (someone) from continuing in an activity or achieving an aim
- Prevent (someone or something) from performing a specified action or undergoing a specified experience
- Cause or order to cease moving or operating
- Be hit by (a bullet)
- Instruct a bank to withhold payment on (a check)
- Refuse to supply as usual; withhold or deduct
- Defeat (an opponent) by a knockout
- Block or close up (a hole or leak)
- Block the mouth of (a fox's earth) prior to a hunt
- STOP, to discontinue the progress or motion of [v]
- Plug the upper end of (an organ pipe), giving a note an octave lower
- Obtain the required pitch from (the string of a violin or similar instrument) by pressing at the appropriate point with the finger
- Make (a rope) fast with a stopper
- (of an event, action, or process) Come to an end; cease to happen
- Cease to perform a specified action or have a specified experience
- the action of one who stops [n -S]