estop
Americanverb (used with object)
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Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
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Archaic. to stop.
verb
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law to preclude by estoppel
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archaic to stop
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of estop
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French estopper, Old French estoper to stop up, derivative of estoupe < Latin stuppa tow. Cf. stuff
Example Sentences
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I told him that the children were in the habit of getting them from the meadow beyond, hoping to estop the suggestion I knew was coming.
From Drift from Two Shores by Harte, Bret
All these inhibitory influences which generally produce negation do not estop Mr. Hughes.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
By voting for our opponents, such of us as do it in some measure estop ourselves to complain of their acts, however glaringly wrong we may believe them to be.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Lincoln, Abraham
But are expressions of this sort, are mere supplications uttered under duress, to estop every person who utters them, and all his posterity to the end of time, from asking for entire justice?
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
I replied, "O my lord, can a slipper estop the flowing of a water that feedeth a Hammam?"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
No matter how glibly presented, however, an “evolved” legal position may be estopped.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019
The seven estopped companies are: Commonwealth Telephone Co., a subsidiary of Associated Telephone Utilities Co., serving in Wisconsin communities against 102 served by A. T. & T.'s unit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Receipt of the Message in confidence automatically estopped all news speculation as to its contents.
From Time Magazine Archive
“And he’d be all, ‘Well, we were playeeng un concierto een the palacio weeth Esteban and Julio, and then we estopped when thee pretty lady came een.’”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Being thus estopped, Bigelow held his peace; and a little later they were dismounting before the door of Fitzpatrick's commissary.
From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis
Every stilted phrase, every estopping, restraining word of its redundancy, was like a bar between him and his hopes.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
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