Stopped

What it means

1. (verb) To cease moving. “I stopped at the traffic lights.”
2. (verb) To not continue. “Soon the rain will stop.”
3. (verb) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. “The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.”
4. (verb) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something). “One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.”
5. (verb) To cause (something) to come to an end. “The referees stopped the fight.”
6. (verb) To close or block an opening. “He stopped the wound with gauze.”
7. (verb) (often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens. “To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.”
8. (verb) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily. “He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.”
9. (verb) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
10. (verb) To punctuate.
11. (verb) To make fast; to stopper.
12. (adjective) (of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle. “They passed a stopped car on the side of the road, but realized there was nothing they could do to help.”

Letter analysis

• Stopped contains 7 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 5 consonant(s).
• It uses 6 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 2.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 12.

Sub-words

• depots
• despot
• posted
• sopped
• topped
• depot
• dopes
• dotes
• opted
• poets
• popes
• posed
• dept
• does
• dope
• dose
• dote
• dots
• odes
• opts
• peps
• peso
• pest
• pets
• pods
• poet
• pope
• pops
• pose
• post
• pots
• sped
• spot
• step
• stop
• toed
• toes
• tops
• doe
• dos
• dot
• eds
• esp
• est
• ode
• ops
• opt
• pep
• pet
• pod
• pop
• pot
• set
• sod
• sop
• sot
• toe
• top
• tsp

Related words

Other 7-letter words

• abalone
• abandon
• abashed
• abashes
• abasing
• abating
• abbrevs
• abdomen
• abducts
• abetted
• abetter
• abettor
• abiding
• ability
• abjured
• abjures
• abolish
• aborted

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Words starting with STO

• stoat
• stoats
• stochastic
• stock
• stockade
• stockaded
• stockades
• stockading
• stockbroker
• stockbrokers
• stocked
• stockholder
• stockholders
• stockier
• stockiest
• stockiness
• stocking
• stockings

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Words ending with PED

• airdropped
• aped
• backstopped
• beeped
• biped
• blacktopped
• bleeped
• bopped
• bumped
• burped
• camped
• caped
• capped
• carped
• catnapped
• champed
• chapped
• cheeped

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