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  • The act of stopping something

  • A brief stay in the course of a journey

  • A restraint that checks the motion of something

  • An obstruction in a pipe or tube

  • A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

  • (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes

  • A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

  • A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

  • The event of something ending

  • A spot where something halts or pauses

  • The state of inactivity following an interruption

  • Prevent completion

  • Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

  • Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

  • Seize on its way

  • Render unsuitable for passage

  • Come to a halt, stop moving

  • Cause to stop

  • Interrupt a trip

  • Stop from happening or developing

  • Put an end to a state or an activity

  • Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

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