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Synonyms and Antonyms of stopping
- the manufacturer will stop selling the toy and will immediately recall all the units that have already been sold
completing, concluding, finishing
blockading, blocking, damming, delaying, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, kiboshing, obstructing, stemming
arresting, braking, checking, clamping down, reining (in), squashing, squelching, stamping, stanching (or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning back
abolishing, aborting, annulling, demolishing, destroying, dissolving, killing, ruining, scuttling, snuffing
- traffic was stopped for over an hour by the overturned truck
baffling, balking, blockading, blocking, bottlenecking, clogging, damming, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, obstructing, snagging, stemming
concluding, cutting off, ending, terminating
calling, discontinuing, suspending
choking off, reining (in), repressing, squashing, squelching, stanching (or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning back
- I stopped the mouse hole with plaster
- the music stopped but we kept on dancing
- they were eventually stopped by the best team in the league
edging (out), nosing out, pipping [British]
annihilating, blowing away, blowing out, bombing, breaking, burying, clobbering, creaming, crushing, drubbing, finishing, flattening, overwhelming, routing, shellacking, skinning, slaughtering, smoking [slang], snowing under, thrashing, trouncing, upsetting, walloping, waxing [slang], whipping
capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeeding
knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, subjugating, unseating, vanquishing
acing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending
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