To stop the way of.

To bar or stop up (one's) passage. Obsolete.

To stop or obstruct the course or way of.

To detain, hold back, stop (a person or thing); to check or arrest the progress of, bring to a halt; to hinder from going on or going away; to…

To arrest the onward movement of (a person or thing); to bring to a stand or state of rest; to cause to halt on a journey; also, to prevent the…

To beset (a place) for the purpose of intercepting or capturing a person.

Medicine and Physiology. transitive. To stop or check the flow of (blood, urine, etc.); to staunch. Cf. suppression, n. 3a. Now rare.

To obstruct, stop, or prevent (a person's progress, or a person in his or her progress).

transitive. To stand in front of; to bar, oppose. Obsolete.

const. from.

To stop, check, or cut off (passage or motion) from one place to another.

To interrupt, stop (communication, passage, etc.); to render impossible by interposing an insurmountable obstacle.

transitive. To come or be in the way of (a person or thing); to intercept; to obstruct. Obsolete.

To place, deposit. To throw (something) so that it ‘lodges’ or is caught in its fall (cf. sense 8); to cause to ‘lodge’ or be intercepted; (of a…

transitive. To prevent, impede, hinder, or retard the motion, passage, or progress of; to prevent or impede (a physical action or movement). Also…

To choke up, impede the flow of (running water); to obstruct the passage of, absorb, quench (rays of light). Obsolete.

transitive. To put an obstacle in the way of, obstruct.

transitive (in passive). To be in a situation that prevents one from leaving a place or making physical progress. Also occasionally in active: to…

(U.S.) To stop by force and rob on the highway. (From the robbers' practice of commanding their victims to hold up their hands on pain of being…