stop
verb (used with object)
to cease from, leave off, or discontinue.
has stopt
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present perfectof stop (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Will the gentleman forgive the intrusion of one who has stopt him in this unusual way?
From Peter Schlemihl by John Bowring
Tomorrow tidings may come that the house which issued them has stopt payment, and what do they represent then?
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Her career has stopt short by the injudicious bringing her out in a vile new Tragedy, and for a third character in a stupid old one,—the Earl of Essex.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
He exclaimed, and his face with excitement fierce burns, "Ah, it now has stopt short! 'tis to pouch it," he thought; "Look! 'tis running again, and the fellow is caught!"
From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by A. Novice
My family, mistaking ambition for honour, and rank for dignity, have long planned a splendid connection for me, to which though my invariable repugnance has stopt any advances, their wishes and their views immovably adhere.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
