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Dentistry. To fill the cavity of (a decayed tooth) with a stopping.
To fill (an aperture, cavity, etc.) by thrusting something tightly in; hence, to stop up, to plug; †to stop (a tooth). Also of a material: To fill up…
Dentistry. = stop, v. 4d.
transitive. To mineralize again; (Medicine and Dentistry) to restore the normal mineral content of (bones or teeth).