Thesaurus:stop
English
Verb
Sense: to cease moving; to come to a stand or standstill
Synonyms
- anchor
- astand (obsolete)
- blin (archaic or dialectal)
- brake
- cease
- desist [⇒ thesaurus]
- draw up
- grind to a halt (idiomatic)
- halt
- hold
- immobilize [⇒ thesaurus]
- leave off
- rest
- stall
- stay (obsolete)
- stint (archaic)
- stop
- swike (archaic or dialectal)
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Further reading
- “265. quiescence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “stop” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.