stopping

Speech parts

1. stopping - Noun

2. stopping - Verb

Derived from stop

Meaning

of Stop

Material for filling a cavity.

A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.

A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

end close contain prevent discontinuance stop break block stay ending finish arrest visiting closing finishing

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Antonyms

through making remaining moving ending passing

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Hypernyms

playing fixing fastening fastener holdfast

Hyponyms

double stopping

Phrases with the word

stopping working stopping work stopping over stopping at stopping-place end-stopping

Anagrams

toppings

Examples

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. Aaron Copland

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. Lawrence Lessig

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. Noam Chomsky

Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out. American Proverb

When lazy horses begin to start, old women to dance, and white clouds to rain, there is no stopping them. Danish Proverb

No stopping the force of a going wheel by hand. Irish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

stoppered stopperless stoppie stopping and starting stopping at stopping bleeding