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STOPPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a nose) blocked
Example:
a stopped (or stopped-up) nose
Synonyms:
stopped; stopped-up; stopped up
Classified under:
Similar:
obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb stop
Context examples:
For vomiting in children and adults, avoid solid foods until vomiting has stopped for at least six hours.
(Nausea and Vomiting, NIH)
"We are on our way to the Emerald City to see the Great Oz," she answered, "and we stopped at your cottage to pass the night."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The flow of blood to and from the limb is temporarily stopped with a tourniquet (a tight band around the limb).
(Isolated Chemotherapeutic Limb Perfusion, NCI Dictionary)
Heart failure does not mean that your heart has stopped or is about to stop working.
(Heart Failure, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Rescue breathing helps get oxygen to the lungs for a person who has stopped breathing.
(CPR, NIH)
All this is much, very much in favour of their happiness; more than perhaps—He stopped.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) In a car, while stopped for a few minutes in the traffic.
(ESS - In a car, While Stopped for a Few Minutes in the Traffic, NCI Thesaurus)
And when outside, I stopped short.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Here Peggotty stopped, and softly beat upon my hand a little while.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Suddenly he yelled "Whoa!" at the dogs, and stopped.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
