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• present participle of stop.

stopping

American  

[stop-ing] / ˈstɒp ɪŋ /

noun

Mining.

• stoppings
  plural

1. a barrier erected to prevent the flow of air or gas.

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stopping British  

/ ˈstɒpɪŋ /

noun

1. informal a dental filling

2. a solid barrier in a mine tunnel to seal off harmful gases, fire, fresh air from used air, etc

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adjective

1. making many stops in a journey

   a stopping train

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• stoppings
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of stopping

1700–05; special use of stopping, verbal noun of stop; see -ing ¹

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Example Sentences

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stopping stoppings

One important way of stopping Ebola from spreading is contact tracing - finding all those people who had come into contact with an infected person and putting them into isolation.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

It captured just going forward and never stopping punching.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Then he said he meant stopping completely, and my stomach dropped.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Nearly all children diagnosed with the disease die within a year, and existing treatments have had little success in stopping its progression.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

“Yes. Well, not always. There is Captain, a good, if quiet, friend. And then of course there are the wandering souls, who—” A realization walloped Clare, stopping him mid-thought.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

There were so many things going on with the police stoppings and stuff at the time, and it just really hit me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020

Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings.

From Time Magazine Archive

This must put off Hill's journey a while, and I don't like these stoppings in such an affair.

From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift

But it took them an hour or two to reach the carryall, with frequent stoppings for rest, and when they reached it, no one was in it.

From The Peterkin papers by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

But still fall after fall on the further side delayed their progress, and the work of repairing the blown-out stoppings by such wood brattice as could be got at, was long and tedious.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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