STOPPED Synonyms: 313 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in prevented

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verb

past tense of stop

as in ceased

to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end the manufacturer will stop selling the toy and will immediately recall all the units that have already been sold

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as in halted

to bring (something) to a standstill traffic was stopped for over an hour by the overturned truck

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as in filled

to close up so that no empty spaces remain I stopped the mouse hole with plaster

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as in ended

to come to an end the music stopped but we kept on dancing

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as in defeated

to achieve a victory over they were eventually stopped by the best team in the league

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Adjective

Three other vehicles with human drivers then appeared to illegally pass the stopped bus. — Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026 The truck crossed into the eastbound lane and crashed into the stopped Kia, striking the three pedestrians, CHP said. — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2026 That's when a 51-year-old woman driving a Tesla south on Highway 85 struck the Focus, causing both cars to spin and crash into a stopped semi-truck. — Austen Erblat, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025

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Group argued construction could be irreversible The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is challenging the ballroom, had told the justices that the project would likely become irreversible unless it is stopped now. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 Bilt, for its part, said the issue had to do with an earlier iteration of its credit cards that had stopped accepting customers. — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 31 Aug. 2026 The company abandoned the name Muzak in 2013, by which time most of us had long stopped noticing the omnipresence of background music in our daily lives. — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 The vehicle ended up in a driveway where an off-duty firefighter stopped to help, extricating Orowson from the Honda, according to state police. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026 In trials, radiation either shrank tumors or stopped them from growing, in all patients evaluated. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026 The officers suspected the driver of a red Toyota truck was intoxicated, and stopped her near the intersection of 34th Street and Gillham Road, just south of Costco, the patrol wrote. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2026 This year, Rosstat stopped providing data on the salaries of civil servants, teachers, and doctors; on Russians’ spending on housing and utilities; and on household income and expenditure. — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026 After loading the AliExpress homepage, audio from his phone stopped playing over his multipoint headphones, which accept connections from more than one device at a time. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stopped

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Over the ensuing decades—and fully informed of the substantial executive power exercised by the Commission—the Supreme Court has repeatedly and expressly left Humphrey's Executor in place, and so precluded Presidents from removing Commissioners at will.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025

Definition of precluded

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According to Reuters, Qalibaf, the Iranian parliament speaker, said that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until military threats ceased and sanctions on Iran were lifted.

— Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
History repeats itself Following the decline of prisoner importation in the early 20th century, West Virginia ceased to receive direct federal payments for housing prisoners.

— Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of ceased

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Today, a federal court halted it before this administration could wreak havoc on our elections.

— Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
The near miss raised questions about why the commercial flight was cleared for takeoff while Marine One was preparing to depart, a period when airline traffic is typically halted around presidential helicopter operations.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

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Back in 2015, Parton and her team buried a chestnut box filled with physical copies of a brand new song in two formats, cassette and CD, along with their corresponding players, under her Dollywood DreamMore Resort and Spa.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026
From large platters just begging to be filled with hors d’oeuvres to trays made for serving batch cocktails, our picks for the best platters are well-crafted and meant for regular (if not daily) use.

— Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of filled

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The city experienced a recent peak of 719 homicides in 2022, a year before Johnson took office, and ended last year with 416, according to Chicago police statistics.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
This is one family’s experience of their last year in Connecticut after major hospitals abruptly ended gender-affirming medical care for trans youth.

— Dr. SJ Job, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of ended

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Tysie Gallagher, Terri Harper and Caroline Dubois beat Americans Brandi Robinson, Miranda Reyes and Amelia Moore, respectively, earlier in the night, while Reina Tellez defeated Jessica Barry for the United States’ only victory.

— Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Taylor pitched a career-high 2 2/3 scoreless relief innings and was credited with the win as the Sox defeated the Twins 7-4 in front of 28,140.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of defeated

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Craig, now a devoted granddad with a dry sense of humor, began working alongside his father at thirteen, quitting school even though teachers warned him that house moving was a dying trade.

— Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
Hep Spyder blamed Dwight for Buffo Carducci’s quitting on him back when Dwight was Hep’s tent boss.

— Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026

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