I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus stop (= a place where a bus stops for passengers )
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She got off at the next bus stop.
a clock stops (= stops working )
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My clock had stopped at 6 am so the alarm didn’t work.
a sound stops
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The sound stopped suddenly.
a watch stops
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Her watch had stopped after getting wet in the sea.
bleeding...stopped
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The bleeding had almost stopped .
bus stop
cancel/stop a cheque (= stop a cheque from being paid to someone )
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Don't forget to phone the bank and cancel that cheque.
full stop
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I don’t have a reason. I just don’t want to go, full stop.
full stop
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Put a full stop at the end of the sentence.
glottal stop
it stops raining
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Has it stopped raining?
pit stop
rest stop
stop a fight/break up a fight
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The police were called in to break up a fight outside a nightclub.
stop a medication (= stop taking a medication )
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I stopped the medication when I found out I was pregnant.
stop crying
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Eventually, he stopped crying and told me what happened.
stop dead (in your tracks) (= suddenly stop moving completely )
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She was so shocked that she stopped dead in her tracks.
Stop dithering
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Stop dithering , girl, and get on with it!
stop press
stop the rot British English (= stop a bad situation getting worse )
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The team has enough good players to stop the rot.
stop/halt a decline (= stop it from continuing )
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These measures are intended to halt the decline in fish populations.
stopping distance
stopping train
stop/quit/give up smoking
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I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago.
switch off/turn off/stop an engine
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Maggie pulled over and switched off the engine.
the rain stops
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They went into a cafe and waited for the rain to stop.
the stopping/braking distance (= how far you travel in a car after pressing the brakes )
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What’s the stopping distance at 30 miles an hour?
truck stop
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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A little short of four Winds he stopped the car and they shared the remains of the picnic.
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And Darlington council plan to put tree stumps around the area to stop cars getting through.
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We stopped the car and got out.
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I stopped the car in the entrance to the farm and would the window down an inch or two.
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During the drive home, we stop the car on the side of the highway, climb out and stare upward.
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When it is finished, people will stop their cars to gawp.
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He stopped the car and rubbed his eyes.
heart
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Then we saw the church and my heart nearly stopped .
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A mile away, they no longer can be eagles, and the heart stops .
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When she saw Andrew it seemed to her as if her heart had stopped beating.
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They found her on the floor with a cracked pelvis and a heart that had almost stopped .
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I can't see, but I must feel, or my heart will stop , and my brain will burst!
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Illness related to his heart and immune system stopped the resurgent banker in his tracks.
track
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The sound began before our search was completed and it stopped me in my tracks , leaving Malc to continue alone.
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I stopped dead in my tracks , unsure of what to do next.
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A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks , right in the middle of the pavement.
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People stop in their tracks and stare.
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Several times I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of something I could not identify.
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Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
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It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
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It literally stopped me in my tracks .
■ VERB
try
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I try and stop myself, but I just start crying.
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They had thrown bottles at the windscreen and tried to stop him.
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I tried to stop , but I couldn't do it.
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Both have too enthusiastically encouraged this trend, and too halfheartedly tried to stop it.
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He turns back and tries to stop her, but fails.
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He was ready to slide off the bed again and try to stop me.
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We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs.
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They glance at her without interest, they do not try to stop her.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make a pit stop
start/stop the clock
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The clock is stopped when a player runs out of bounds with the ball.
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If you are bled totally dry and white, they will simply stop the clock .
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Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock .
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You start the clock , paint the glue, fit the pieces, block the cramps.
stop short
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At the crest of the hill, she stopped short as she read a warning sign next to the trail.
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Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.
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Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.
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He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.
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He reads a few lines and stops short .
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He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
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It goes without saying that all this stops short at the people, who have been abandoned to the authorities' exploitation.
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The door opened abruptly, and over Roman's shoulder Claudia saw Dana stop short in confusion.
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Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.
stop short of doing sth
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Paula stopped just short of calling me a thief.
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But they have stopped short of rejecting the idea altogether.
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Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.
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Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.
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He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.
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His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla.
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Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.
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Yet we stop short of analysing what it is.
stop/halt (dead) in your tracks
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A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks , right in the middle of the pavement.
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An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.
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Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks .
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I stopped dead in my tracks , unsure of what to do next.
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It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
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People stop in their tracks and stare.
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Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
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The people had stopped in their tracks , women were making their children stand behind them.
the buck stops here
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It was my decision to close the hospital; the buck stops with me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A man stopped me in the street and asked if I knew where the theatre was.
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A yellow car stopped outside the house.
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All the staff are determined to stop bullying in the school.
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Can we stop at the next services and get something to eat?
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Catherine stood watching the rain, hoping it would stop soon.
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Could you stop just here on the left?
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Could you stop making that noise for a moment?
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Could you stop what you are doing and pay attention, please?
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Does this train stop at Lyon?
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George stopped the engine and got out of the car.
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He wanted to quit college, and no one could stop him.
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He wrote quickly, but from time to time he stopped and looked out of the window.
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I'm not stopping, I've just popped in to pick up some books.
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I've made up my mind to leave home, and you can't stop me.
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I stopped going to church after I left home.
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I stopped reading and turned out the light.
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I stopped to rest for a few minutes.
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I gave my little brother some chocolate to stop him crying.
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I got stopped by a policeman for having a broken headlight.
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I saw Maria and stopped to say hello.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I want to reclaim it - so I can stop being a casualty of this war that has no name.
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Our tanks and tracks kept going a little bit and stopped to return fire immediately.
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So eventually I stopped even going for the tests.
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The emperor himself could not stop it now.
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They wanted to stop equality for black people and to kill anyone who didn't agree with them.
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When I asked Jasper what had stopped him from accepting these large offers, the question startled him.
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When Jack put a foot on the dance floor, some, then all couples stopped and the band trailed off.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
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In 1979 Tom Kendall joined the desk from Wharton, with a brief intervening stop in the back office.
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About half way back, he made a brief stop and flung the empty gasoline can far into the night.
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He and his cameraman spent 17 hours traveling from one hilly location to the next, with a brief stop in Scottsdale.
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After a brief stop at Gairlochy, I decide to make straight for Fiona's croft.
dead
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We were on the verge of an affair, but the moment he met you everything came to a dead stop .
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Caroline nodded, drew a deep breath, made her entrance ... And came to a dead stop .
overnight
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Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse.
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Foreigners generally get off at Novosibirsk for an overnight stop , but I stayed on the train.
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If you wish, we can arrange for your luggage to be sent on ahead to each of the overnight stops .
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One such overnight stop was in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to stay with and enlist the support of pilot Dorothy Leh.
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Souk Sebt, a Saturday marketplace, was our overnight stop .
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This journey also includes an overnight stop near Wurzburg.
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We cross to Calais and continue to Brussels for our first overnight stop .
short
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After a short stop , it's back into midstream towards Cochem and its splendid hilltop castle.
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Fern Lodge, Highgate, was one of their shorter stops , when it briefly became a centre of the literary universe.
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It's only a short stop to the sand and pebble beach where watersports are also available.
voiceless
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The symbol T indicates a following voiceless stop or sonorant + voiceless stop cluster.
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For example, extraneous voiceless stops are often hypothesized at utterance onset.
■ NOUN
campaign
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At a rural campaign stop in 1987, she announced she wanted to address some distant onlookers.
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Dole had one of those governors at his side during every campaign stop in the Midwest.
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Clinton, during a campaign stop in Michigan, said he would welcome the Perot at the debates.
■ VERB
come
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We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement.
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He glowered at a taxi as it came to a noisy stop at the light.
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Lacuna came to a stop behind her, and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender.
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We reached the border gate at half past four and when we did, the bus came to an abrupt stop .
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And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop .
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An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
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Stirling's jeep was hit and came to a stop .
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He kept his eye on a tan Ford turning slowly into the station and coming to a stop near the service area.
draw
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He had actually succeeded in drifting forward and downward again, when the voice drew him to a stop once more.
make
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We made our usual rest stop and got water from the mountainside that had been piped in, so pure and tasty.
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As the southbound train hit the New Hampshire-Maine border, it made an unscheduled stop .
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About half way back, he made a brief stop and flung the empty gasoline can far into the night.
pull
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There were occasions when Bloomsbury House pulled out all the stops on behalf of children who were clearly gifted - usually in the arts.
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Do you suppose he has to accuse us of aggression and pull out all stops on cheap emotionalism?
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We pulled out all the stops and gave the company a response in record time.
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CafÄ Pinot is pulling out all the stops with its four-course aphrodisiac menu.
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Lott pulled out all the stops .
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But she had only ever pulled the stops out for people she loved and respected.
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Soap bosses pulled out all the stops so football fever could infect Albert Square.
put
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I thought I'd put a stop to this nonsense!
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The master put a stop to the nonsense the moment he walked in.
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It's coming out of our taxes, that's where, and we ought to put a stop to it.
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An attempt to annex nearby Epizephyrian Lokri was put a stop to by Hiero in 478.
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The young dancer put a stop to our writing, as I had expected.
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We did have a couple of suicides, but I soon put a stop to that.
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Yet a polite, reasoned reply seldom puts a stop to the exchange.
roll
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I cut the motor and roll to a slow stop .
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Soon after the bus hit the strip, it rolled to a stop .
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And, then, it lands with a thud and a screech until everything rolls to a complete stop .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come to a halt/stop
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Almost at once there was a slight crunch of gravel under wheels as a vehicle came to a halt.
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An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
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As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
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He rose and led them both down the stone steps, coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door.
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The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop.
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The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt.
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The train lurches into movement, then, quickly, comes to a halt.
draw to a halt/stop
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She heard a large vehicle draw to a halt behind her on the main road.
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She stood there while it drew to a halt.
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She turned as the car drew to a halt.
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The car drew to a halt alongside the front door, and an instant later the driver's door swung open.
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The coach had drawn to a halt outside the Theater an der Wien.
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The convoy drew to a halt in front of the hotel.
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The taxi drew to a halt where a purple awning reached out to the edge of the pavement.
make a pit stop
put a stop/an end to sth
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It's time the community worked together to put an end to the violence.
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Her old feeling for him had returned; she was determined to put an end to his sufferings and bring him home.
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It was Gloucester who chose to put an end to it.
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Judge Frossard, it seems, wanted to put an end to the inertia.
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Swiftly introduce new legislation to put an end to the trauma and misery suffered by child witnesses in court proceedings.
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That put an end to any stunt deemed risky, Weiss says.
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This trite communication put an end to Emma's overtures and she began to fade from their lives.
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Thus the event of her puberty puts an end to her pure childhood.
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To put an end to such exalted talk, I asked Mendl to tell me about Spats-making machinery.
stop short
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At the crest of the hill, she stopped short as she read a warning sign next to the trail.
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Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.
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Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.
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He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.
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He reads a few lines and stops short .
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He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
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It goes without saying that all this stops short at the people, who have been abandoned to the authorities' exploitation.
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The door opened abruptly, and over Roman's shoulder Claudia saw Dana stop short in confusion.
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Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.
stop short of doing sth
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Paula stopped just short of calling me a thief.
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But they have stopped short of rejecting the idea altogether.
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Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.
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Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.
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He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.
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His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla.
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Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.
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Yet we stop short of analysing what it is.
stop/halt (dead) in your tracks
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A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks , right in the middle of the pavement.
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An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.
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Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks .
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I stopped dead in my tracks , unsure of what to do next.
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It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
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People stop in their tracks and stare.
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Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
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The people had stopped in their tracks , women were making their children stand behind them.
the buck stops here
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It was my decision to close the hospital; the buck stops with me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Excuse me, could you tell me what the next stop is?
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I'm getting off at the next stop .
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Our trip to Africa included a stop in the Serengeti.
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We need to get off at the next stop .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
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At Freeport, the Jones Beach stop , was the mad dash for the bus.
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Having reached Aulef and taken on water, that night was a pit stop .
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If you're looking for ground-breaking mayhem, you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop .
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The crystal ensures that the interval between reset and stop is stable and accurate.