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(v)
(intransitive) To cease moving.
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(transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
(transitive) To leave (a place).
(transitive) To stop or quit (an activity, etc.)
(intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
(transitive) To complete (something).
(ambitransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).
(n)
(formal) A ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final.
The occurrence of something being discontinued; a cessation; an incomplete ending.
A pause or halt of some activity.
The act of stopping producing or supplying a product.
The act of something that stops; a halt.
(transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
To halt something temporarily.
The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
The termination of employment, initiated by the employee.
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
(adj)
Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.
(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
(intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain; to eschew
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
(intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
(transitive, intransitive) To close, in various senses.
To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
(intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
(intransitive) To vanish.
(transitive) To delete.
(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
(transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something; to trade away.
A termination or conclusion.
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
(ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
A pause or period of slackening.
(Of a product) Permanently no longer available for sale
Not available for operation, participation, interaction, etc.
(physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
(intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
(transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
(transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.
(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).
(transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
(intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
Obsolete form of cease. [(formal, intransitive) To stop.]
(transitive) To have or set as one's purpose or aim; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
(transitive) To set in some sort of order.
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
To precede, to go before.
(transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
A short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption.
(more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped.
(transitive) To check, restrain or control.
To remove the stem from.
(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
(intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
(transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
A male given name from Spanish.
(transitive) To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
(intransitive) To come to an end; to desist.
(transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
(ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
(intransitive) To begin, start.
To begin again.
(transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
(intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality
A continuation.
Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
A surname.
(intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
Can not (be unable to).