backstop | (verb) act as a backstop | - |
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stop | (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break, break off, discontinue |
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(verb) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments | Synonyms: hold on |
(verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, hold back, turn back |
(verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: intercept |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade |
(verb) come to a halt, stop moving | Synonyms: halt |
(verb) cause to end | - |
(verb) interrupt a trip | Synonyms: stop over |
(verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, kibosh |
(verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit |
(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, finish, terminate |
whistlestop | (verb) tour the country in order to solicit votes for an election | - |
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