| backstop | (noun) a precaution in case of an emergency | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field | - |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: catcher |
| (verb) act as a backstop | - |
| blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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| blastopore | (noun) the opening into the archenteron | - |
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| blastoporic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporal |
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| cystoparalysis | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoplegia |
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| cystoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoparalysis |
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| doorstop | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstopper |
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| doorstopper | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstop |
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| dystopia | (noun) a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror | - |
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| (noun) state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror | - |
| dystopian | (adjective) as bad as can be; characterized by human misery | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia | - |
| estoppel | (noun) a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled | - |
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| mastopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mazopathy |
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| mastopexy | (noun) plastic surgery to lift or reshape the breasts | - |
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| mephistophelean | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian |
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| mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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| nonstop | (adjective) at all times | Synonyms: around-the-clock, day-and-night, round-the-clock |
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| (adjective) (of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops | - |
| (noun) a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination | Synonyms: nonstop flight |
| (adverb) without stopping | - |
| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| postoperatively | (adverb) after the operation | - |
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| shortstop | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: short |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |
| showstopper | (noun) something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal | Synonyms: show-stopper |
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| (noun) an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down | Synonyms: show-stopper, stopper |
| stop | (noun) the act of stopping something | Synonyms: stoppage |
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| (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: layover, stopover |
| (noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: catch |
| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stoppage |
| (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | Synonyms: diaphragm |
| (noun) (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes | - |
| (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | Synonyms: occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop consonant |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, point |
| (noun) the event of something ending | Synonyms: halt |
| (noun) a spot where something halts or pauses | - |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage |
| (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break, break off, discontinue |
| (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 |
| stopcock | (noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: cock, turncock |
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| stopgap | (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, makeshift |
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| stoplight | (noun) a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections | Synonyms: traffic light, traffic signal |
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| (noun) a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop | Synonyms: brake light |
| stopover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: layover, stop |
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| (noun) a stopping place on a journey | Synonyms: way station |
| stoppable | (adjective) capable of being stopped | - |
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| stoppage | (noun) the act of stopping something | Synonyms: stop |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stop |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop |
| stopped | (adjective) (of a nose) blocked | Synonyms: stopped-up, stopped up |
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| stopper | (noun) blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly | Synonyms: plug, stopple |
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| (noun) (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit | - |
| (noun) an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down | Synonyms: show-stopper, showstopper |
| (noun) a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply | Synonyms: conversation stopper |
| (verb) close or secure with or as if with a stopper | Synonyms: stopple |
| stoppered | (adjective) (of a container) having a stopper in the opening | - |
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| stopping | (noun) the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch | - |
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| (noun) fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members | Synonyms: fillet |
| stopple | (noun) blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly | Synonyms: plug, stopper |
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| (verb) close or secure with or as if with a stopper | Synonyms: stopper |
| stops | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: boodle, Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket |
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| stopwatch | (noun) a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race) | Synonyms: stop watch |
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| unstoppable | (adjective) not capable of being stopped | - |
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| unstoppered | (adjective) (of a container) having the stopper removed | - |
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| whistlestop | (verb) tour the country in order to solicit votes for an election | - |
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