Stop definition

Stop as a noun

1. the event of something ending

   "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"

   Same sense: halt

2. the act of stopping something

   "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"

   Same sense: stoppage

3. a brief stay in the course of a journey

   "they made a stopover to visit their friends"

   Same sense: stopover, layover

4. the state of inactivity following an interruption

   "he spent the entire stop in his seat"

   Same sense: stay, check, arrest, halt, hitch, stoppage

5. a spot where something halts or pauses

   "his next stop is Atlanta"

6. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

   "his stop consonants are too aspirated"

   Same sense: stop consonant, occlusive, plosive, plosive speech sound, plosive consonant

7. a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

   "in England they call a period a ‘stop’"

   Same sense: point, full point, full stop, period

8. (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes

   "the organist pulled out all the stops"

9. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

   Same sense: diaphragm

10. a restraint that checks the motion of something

    "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"

    Same sense: catch

11. an obstruction in a pipe or tube

    Same sense: block, closure, stoppage, blockage, occlusion

Stop as a verb

12. come to a halt, stop moving

    "the car stopped"

    Same sense: halt

13. put an end to a state or an activity

    Same sense: give up, break, break off, lay off, quit, cease, discontinue

14. stop from happening or developing

    Same sense: block, halt, kibosh

15. interrupt a trip

    "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"

    Same sense: stop over

16. cause to end

    "stop a car"

17. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

    Same sense: check, turn back, hold back, arrest, contain

18. seize on its way

    Same sense: intercept

19. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

    "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"

    Same sense: end, finish, cease, terminate

20. render unsuitable for passage

    "stop the busy road"

    Same sense: bar, block, block up, block off, blockade, barricade

21. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

    Same sense: hold on

Synonyms and antonyms

• halt
• stoppage
• stopover
• layover
• stay definition
• check definition
• arrest
• hitch
• stop consonant
• occlusive
• plosive
• plosive speech sound
• plosive consonant
• point definition
• full point
• full stop
• period definition
• diaphragm
• catch
• block
• closure
• blockage
• occlusion
• give up

Opposite: start.

All synonyms of stop, sense by sense

How to say stop

Stop has 1 syllable and rhymes with top. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with stop

• top
• drop
• shop
• pop
• op
• hop
• cop
• laptop
• crop
• workshop
• swap
• desktop

STOP in word games

Scrabble

6

Words With Friends

7

Anagrams

5

Is STOP a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check STOP in the word checker, or unscramble STOP to see its 5 anagrams and the shorter words in its letters.