Scrabble & Words with friends points
- stop is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
- stop is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
- stop is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7
Definition of stop
- put an end to a state or an activity (verb)
Synonyms
- cease
- discontinue
- give up
- lay off
- quit
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube (noun)
Synonyms
- block
- blockage
- closure
- occlusion
- stoppage
- the act of stopping something (noun)
Examples
- the third baseman made some remarkable stops
- his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood
Synonyms
- stoppage
- prevent completion (verb)
Examples
- stop the project
Synonyms
- break
- break off
- discontinue
- the state of inactivity following an interruption (noun)
Examples
- he spent the entire stop in his seat
Synonyms
- arrest
- check
- halt
- hitch
- stay
- stoppage
- stop from happening or developing (verb)
Synonyms
- block
- halt
- kibosh
- render unsuitable for passage (verb)
Examples
- stop the busy road
Synonyms
- bar
- barricade
- block
- block off
- block up
- blockade
- a restraint that checks the motion of something (noun)
Examples
- he used a book as a stop to hold the door open
Synonyms
- catch
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical (verb)
Examples
- Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other
Synonyms
- cease
- end
- finish
- terminate
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments (verb)
Synonyms
- hold on
- interrupt a trip (verb)
Examples
- we stopped at Aunt Mary's house
- they stopped for three days in Florence
Synonyms
- stop over
- seize on its way (verb)
Synonyms
- intercept
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens (noun)
Synonyms
- diaphragm
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it (noun)
Examples
- his stop consonants are too aspirated
Synonyms
- occlusive
- plosive
- plosive consonant
- plosive speech sound
- stop consonant
- come to a halt, stop moving (verb)
Examples
- the car stopped
- She stopped in front of a store window
Synonyms
- halt
- the event of something ending (noun)
Examples
- it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill
Synonyms
- halt
- a brief stay in the course of a journey (noun)
Examples
- they made a stopover to visit their friends
Synonyms
- layover
- stopover
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations (noun)
Examples
- in England they call a period a stop
Synonyms
- full point
- full stop
- period
- point
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of (verb)
Synonyms
- arrest
- check
- contain
- hold back
- turn back
- a spot where something halts or pauses (noun)
Examples
- his next stop is Atlanta
- cause to stop (verb)
Examples
- stop a car
- stop the thief
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes (noun)
Examples
- the organist pulled out all the stops
See definition of stop in Merriam Webster