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Crossword-Solution: STOP 4 letters, 932 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Stop v. t. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing;
as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
Stop v. t. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way,
road, or passage.
Stop v. t. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut
in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow
of blood.
Stop v. t. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or
efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress;
to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the
progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
Stop v. t. To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing
them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any
way the vibrating part.
Stop v. t. To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
Stop v. t. To make fast; to stopper.
Stop v. i. To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a
stop.
Stop v. i. To cease from any motion, or course of action.
Stop v. i. To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to
tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
Stop n. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance
of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check;
obstruction.
Stop n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an
impediment; an obstruction.
Stop n. A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for
arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which
another part shall be brought.
Stop n. The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of
the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify
the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical
instrument are regulated.
Stop n. In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the
organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of
pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
Stop n. A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and
fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the
place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to
prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
Stop n. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to
distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of
punctuation. See Punctuation.
Stop n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the
marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
Stop n. The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the
nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other
breeds.
Stop n. Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the
tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or
voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a
front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but
not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the
consonants so formed.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
STOP anagram OPTS, POST, POTS, PTOS, SPOT, TOPS, TSOP

We have 932 clues for the answer “STOP”

Clue Answers
End suddenly 1 answer
Cease, as at a traffic signal 1 answer
" . . . I could not ___ for Death": Dickinson 1 answer
"All ___!" (captain's cry) 1 answer
"Bus ___," Inge play 1 answer
"Don't ___" (1992 campaign song) 1 answer
"Enough with the lame puns already!" (and, when parsed as three words, a hint to the theme answers) 1 answer
"Enough, you're killing me!" 1 answer
"Freeze!" ... or, when broken into three parts, how the answer for each of the six starred clues goes 1 answer
"Honey, no ..." 1 answer
"I'm done listening" 1 answer
"Knock it off!" (or, parsed in three parts, a hint to the theme answers) 1 answer
"Last ___ on Market Street" 1 answer
"OK, that's enough!" 1 answer
"Oh, you flatter me!" 1 answer
"Quit doing that!" 1 answer
"That's so annoying!" 1 answer
"That's the end of this telegram sentence" 1 answer
"This is my __" 1 answer
"Time must have a ___" 1 answer
"You'll spoil the ending!" 1 answer
"__ the music!" 1 answer
"___ Draggin My Heart Around" (Tom Petty) 1 answer
"___ me if you've heard this one . . ." 1 answer
"___ on red" 1 answer
"___ the World . . . ": 1969 movie 1 answer
"___ the World, I . . . " 1 answer
"___! In The Name Of Love" 1 answer
*Sign ... organ ... telegram 1 answer
1965 Supremes hit ___! In the Name of Love 1 answer
A brief stay in the course of a journey 1 answer
A period. 1 answer
A place for the bus 1 answer
A space-voyaging problem. 1 answer
Against Me! song that's dead in its tracks? 1 answer
Anagram for tops 1 answer
Anagram of "pots" 1 answer
Red sign command 1 answer
Arrester's word 1 answer
Arresting word 1 answer
Arrive in the pit 1 answer
Automatic-elevator button 1 answer
Avast, to a lubber 1 answer
Back backer 1 answer
Back or short follower 1 answer
Baseball coach's hands-up signal 1 answer
Bit of sign language? 1 answer
Break or brake 1 answer
Break the habit 1 answer
Bring an end to 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with STOP (5)

Hee Heav’n of Heavens and all the Powers therein By thee created, and by thee threw down Th’ aspiring Dominations: thou that day Thy Fathers dreadful Thunder didst not spare, Nor stop thy flaming Chariot wheels, that shook Heav’ns everlasting Frame, while o’re the necks Thou drov’st of warring Angels disarraid.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: “Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.” The Sick Stag A SICK STAG lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Just as I got into the woods, he came up and told me to stop my cart, and that he would teach me how to trifle away my time, and break gates.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Marie, _stop_ and tell me!” Emil overtook her and catching her by the shoulders shook her gently, as if he were trying to awaken a sleepwalker.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
But ’twas all nought.” “Did ye ever take anything to try and stop it, Joseph Poorgrass?” “Oh ay, tried all sorts.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with STOP (3)

And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before — bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it — but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.
Cassandra Clare City of Glass
Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land
Pablo Neruda Selected Poems
Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held. He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!” I yelled back. But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again. See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and …
Richelle Mead Blood Promise
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Used 1,288 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).