stop
verb (used with object)
to cease from, leave off, or discontinue.
have stopt
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present perfectof stop.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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I should as soon have imagined one man could have stopt a cannon-ball in its full force as her tongue.
From The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 by George Saintsbury
The greatest banquiers have stopt payment; all would go to our wish, if we could but march instantly.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
A surgeon of eminence, who was accidentally in the assembly, desired the company to make way; declaring no removal to be practicable, till he should have stopt the effusion of blood.
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
Sir Charles Grandison would have stopt reading here.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
Accordingly, so far as they can, they have stopt every pass, except that by Butaul, which, of course, has become a considerable mart, although most inconveniently situated.
From An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton
