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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The Bank has stopt payment; and every body in the town kept money at it, or has got some of its notes.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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
If so, then Appollo has stopt payment—promising a dividend of one shilling in the pound—and all concerned in that house are bankrupts.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
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
"What! is it Front-de-Boeuf," said the Black Knight, "who has stopt on the king's highway the king's liege subjects?—Is he turned thief and oppressor?"
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
