| backstop | (verb) act as a backstop | - |
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| blacktop | (verb) coat with blacktop | - |
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| overtop | (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, dominate, overlook |
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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 |
| top | (verb) be the culminating event | Synonyms: crown |
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| (verb) finish up or conclude | Synonyms: top off |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: pinch |
| (verb) strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin | - |
| (verb) pass by, over, or under without making contact | Synonyms: clear |
| (verb) reach or ascend the top of | - |
| (verb) provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure) | Synonyms: top out |
| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, pass, transcend |
| (verb) be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point | - |
| (verb) be ahead of others; be the first | Synonyms: lead |
| whistlestop | (verb) tour the country in order to solicit votes for an election | - |
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