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1. stop, halt -- (the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill").
2. stop, stoppage -- (the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood").
3. stop, stopover, layover -- (a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends").
4. arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage -- (the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat").
5. stop -- (a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta").
6. stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive -- (a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated").
7. period, point, full stop, stop, full point -- (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").
8. stop -- ((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. diaphragm, stop -- (a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically").
10. catch, stop -- (a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open").
11. blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage -- (an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe").

1. stop, halt -- (come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window").
2. discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off -- (put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother").
3. stop, halt, block, kibosh -- (stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process").
4. stop, stop over -- (interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence").
5. stop -- (cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief").
6. break, break off, discontinue, stop -- (prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations").
7. check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back -- (hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism").
8. intercept, stop -- (seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace").
9. end, stop, finish, terminate, cease -- (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo").
10. barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar -- (render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road").
11. hold on, stop -- (stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!").

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