stopped
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Definitions ofstopped
- To cease moving.
Example: "I stopped at the traffic lights."
- To not continue.
Example: "Soon the rain will stop."
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
Example: "The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks."
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
Example: "One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting."
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
Example: "The referees stopped the fight."
- To close or block an opening.
Example: "He stopped the wound with gauze."
- (often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
Example: "To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22."
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
Example: "He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive."
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To punctuate.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- (of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle.
Example: "They passed a stopped car on the side of the road, but realized there was nothing they could do to help."
- (more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped.
Example: "A stopped clock is right twice a day."
- (of a pipe) Having a stop; being closed at one end.
- (of a plant) In a well-pruned state.
- Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b, d, p, and t.
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