Another word from stop

to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.

to cause to cease; put an end to: to stop noise in the street.

to interrupt, arrest, or check (a course, proceeding, process, etc.): Stop your work just a minute.

to cut off, intercept, or withhold: to stop supplies.

to restrain, hinder, or prevent (usually followed by from): I couldn’t stop him from going.

to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.: to stop a speaker; to stop a car.

to block, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually followed by up): He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch.

to fill the hole or holes in (a wall, a decayed tooth, etc.).

to close (a container, tube, etc.) with a cork, plug, bung, or the like.

to close the external orifice of (the ears, nose, mouth, etc.).

Banking. to notify a bank to refuse payment of (a check) upon presentation.

Bridge. to have an honor card and a sufficient number of protecting cards to keep an opponent from continuing to win in (a suit).

to come to a stand, as in a course or journey; halt.

to cease moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.; to pause; desist.

to cease; come to an end.

to halt for a brief visit (often followed by at, in, or by): He is stopping at the best hotel in town.

stop by, to make a brief visit on one’s way elsewhere: I’ll stop by on my way home.

the act of stopping.

a cessation or arrest of movement, action, operation, etc.; end: The noise came to a stop. Put a stop to that behavior!

a stay or sojourn made at a place, as in the course of a journey: Above all, he enjoyed his stop in Trieste.

a place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and discharge passengers: Is this a bus stop?

a closing or filling up, as of a hole.

a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel.

a plug or other stopper for an opening.

an obstacle, impediment, or hindrance.

any piece or device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism.

Architecture. a feature terminating a molding or chamfer.

Sports. an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a catch in baseball, a tackle in football, or the deflection of a shot in hockey.

Nautical. a piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, as a furled sail.

Photography. the diaphragm opening of a lens, especially as indicated by an f- number.

any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, especially a period.

the word “stop” printed in the body of a telegram or cablegram to indicate a period.

stops, (used with a singular verb) a family of card games whose object is to play all of one’s cards in a predetermined sequence before one’s opponents.

Zoology. a depression in the face of certain animals, especially dogs, marking the division between the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle.