transitive. To bring to a standstill, to cause to cease or stop.

transitive. To put an end to; to stop.

transitive. To bring to an end, to put a stop to.

With verbs. (See also 12–14.) to put an end to, †to set end of: to terminate, put a stop to, abolish.

With verbs. (See also 12–14.) to put an end to, †to set end of: to terminate, put a stop to, abolish.

transitive. To beat down or away; figurative to put an end to. Obsolete.

To put an end to (strife, enmity, rebellion, or any mischievous agency or condition). Obsolete.

To cause to cease, bring to an end, check, stop (an event or state of affairs, actions of others). Obsolete.

transitive. To set aside, renounce, abjure; to dismiss from one's mind. Formerly also: †to abolish, reject, put an end to (obsolete).

To cause to stop; to stop the course of. motion, course, pace; growth, decay, etc.

transitive. To bring to an end; to come to the end of, go through the last period or stage of. Often with gerund (formerly with infinitive) as…

transitive. To put an end to, cause to cease; to bring to a conclusion, complete. Frequently in passive. Cf. terminate, v. 1a.

transitive. To bring to an end; to finish, terminate. In early use also: spec. to terminate successfully, win (a battle or war). Obsolete.

To put a stop to (the action of others, a state or condition of things), to stop. Obsolete.

transitive. To eliminate or alleviate (a quality, condition, etc., that is harmful, unpleasant, or undesirable); to relieve (an illness, a symptom…

transitive. To bring to an end, put an end to, cause to cease.

To cause to cease, put an end to (a movement, activity, course of events).

To put a stop to, bring to an end, cause to cease; to stay (legal proceedings.). Obsolete.

transitive. To stop, check, hold back. Cf. reest, v.3 1. Now rare (Scottish in later use).

transitive. To desist from (an action or practice); to cease, stop. Also: to cause to cease; to put an end to, abolish (the use or provision of…

transitive. To finish, terminate. Only in past participle.

transitive. To cease from, stop; put a stop to.

To stop, arrest, delay, prevent (an action or process, something which is begun or intended). Frequently in legal parlance.

transitive. To do away with, to put an end to; (occasionally) to reject or deny.

To overcome or keep down by force or authority. transitive. To cause (a practice, action, etc.) to cease; to put an end to; to prevent or disallow…

to set inor at stay: to reduce to order or quiet; to settle. Also to set a stay, to set stays: to settle matters. Obsolete.

to make stay of: to put a stop to (an action); to arrest (a person); to intercept (goods, etc.) in transit; to stop the circulation of (a book).

transitive. To sever, break off, dissolve (a connection or the like). Obsolete.

(figurative from 3.) To stop (action, growth, exhibition of feeling, and the like); to stay the course of; to repress, restrain.

To check, prevent, or cut off (the operation or effect of an event, action, faculty, etc.).

to give a stop to (an agent or activity): to check or arrest the progress of. Obsolete.

transitive. To separate, divide; to break off.

transitive. To put an end to; to bring to an end. Cf. date, n.2 5. Obsolete.

transitive. To bring to an end; to terminate. Cf. period, n. 11. Now rare.

To stay, stop.

transitive. To stop, put an end to, cut short. Obsolete.

transitive. To draw off sharply, withdraw completely from.

To check or stop (growth); to blight, nip, or mar the growth of (a plant, etc.). Now dialect.

transitive. Scots Law. To stop or suspend (a legal procedure) by judicial decree. Also: to stop or postpone (any proceeding). Also occasionally in…

to make (a) stop of = f. Obsolete.

Law. transitive. To put a stop to (legal proceedings, etc.); to stop, stay. Now chiefly U.S. Cf. supersedeas, n.

To lull, calm, assuage, lay at rest, put an end to.

transitive. To terminate (a thing); to bring to an end. Cf. period, n. 11. Obsolete.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1d(c).)

to put a stop to (an activity, something active): to check, restrain; to arrest the progress of; to bring to an end, abolish.

An exclamation meaning Stop! cease! Hence to cry holla; to give the holla to, to stop or check by this call. Obsolete.

transitive. Apparently: to cause (a noise) to subside, bring to a stop. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make to cease; to put an end to.

To put an end to, cause to cease, abrogate, destroy; formerly also to dissolve (a parliament).

To cut off, put a stop to, get rid of, as if by throttling, as bulldogs are made to loosen their hold by choking them. Also, to deter, discourage…

slang. To stop; to ‘put the stopper on’.

transitive. figurative. To put a stop to; to interrupt in order to end. rare.

Something that causes to cease or brings to a stand. gen., esp. in the phrase to put a stopper on (? with mixture of sense 2), to put a stop to. collo…

transitive. To cause (an animal) to stop feeding solely or principally on a particular food; to cease to restrict (esp. a person) to a particular…

In occasional uses: To stop the movement or activity of.

In various slang or colloquial phrases with down, off, on, esp. to put the lid on, to bring to a close or climax; to conceal or ‘clamp down on’.

on the fritz: in an unsatisfactory or defective state or condition; (now) esp. (of a machine, device, etc.) out of order, broken. to go on the fritz…

To put an end to; to stop the working or use of.

to put the fritz on something: to spoil or put a stop to something.

to put the bee on (slang, chiefly U.S.): (a) to quash, put an end to; to beat; (b) to ask for a loan from, to borrow money from (cf. sting, v.1 2e).

transferred and figurative. intransitive for reflexive. With off. Of persons: to cease listening, to lose concentration; to become bored or…

Phrases, etc. to blow the whistle on (a person or thing): to bring an activity to a sharp conclusion, as if by the blast of a whistle; now…