'Stopped' definitions:
Definition of 'stopped'
From: WordNet
adjective
(of a nose) blocked; "a stopped (or stopped-up) nose" [syn: stopped, stopped-up(a), stopped up(p)]
Definition of 'Stopped'
From: GCIDE
- Stop \Stop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stopping.] [OE. stoppen, AS. stoppian (in comp.); akin to LG. & D. stoppen, G. stopfen, Icel. stoppa, Sw. stoppa, Dan. stoppe; all probably fr. LL. stopare, stupare, fr. L. stuppa the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. Cf. Estop, Stuff, Stupe a fomentation.]
- 1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity. [1913 Webster]
- Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not be rubbed nor stopped. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Mus.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- If his sentences were properly stopped. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Naut.) To make fast; to stopper. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt. [1913 Webster]
- To stop off (Founding), to fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting.
- To stop the mouth. See under Mouth. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stopped'
From: GCIDE
- Stopped \Stopped\, a. (Phonetics) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). --H. Sweet. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stopped'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accented,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- arrested,
- articulated,
- assimilated,
- back,
- backward,
- barytone,
- behindhand,
- belated,
- bilabial,
- blocked,
- bound,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- checked,
- choked,
- choked up,
- clogged,
- clogged up,
- close,
- congested,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- constipated,
- continuant,
- costive,
- delayed,
- delayed-action,
- dental,
- detained,
- dissimilated,
- dorsal,
- flat,
- foul,
- fouled,
- front,
- full,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- held up,
- high,
- hung up,
- in a bind,
- in abeyance,
- infarcted,
- intonated,
- jammed,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- late,
- lateral,
- latish,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- moratory,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- never on time,
- obstipated,
- obstructed,
- occlusive,
- open,
- overdue,
- oxytone,
- packed,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plugged,
- plugged up,
- posttonic,
- retarded,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- semivowel,
- slow,
- soft,
- sonant,
- stopped up,
- stressed,
- strong,
- stuffed,
- stuffed up,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- tardy,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unpunctual,
- unready,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- untimely,
- velar,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
Words containing 'Stopped'
- Stop,
- Stopping,
- To stop off,
- To stop over,
- stop over,
- stop up,
- stopped up,
- stops,
- Echo stop,
- Reed stop,
- Stop bead,
- Stop motion,
- Stop order,
- Stop plank,
- Stop valve,
- Stop watch,
- Stop-over,
- Stopping-out,
- To stop a gap,
- To stop the mouth,
- Voice stop,
- Voiced stop,
- Voiceless stop,
- bus stop,
- dead stop,
- diapason stop,
- double stopping,
- flag stop,
- flue stop,
- full stop,
- furniture stop,
- glottal stop,
- labial stop,
- organ stop,
- pit stop,
- pull out all the stops,
- rest stop,
- stop bath,
- stop consonant,
- stop dead,
- stop light,
- stop number,
- stop payment,
- stop press,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped-up,
- stopping place,
- stopping point,
- suction stop,
- truck stop,
- whistle stop,
- without stopping,
- Long-stop,
- Stop-gap,
- end-stopped,
- night-stop,
- short-stop,
- Four-way stop,
- Man-stopping bullet,
- short-stop bath,
- stop-loss order,
- whistle-stop tour