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Stop over   /stɑp ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Stop over

verb
1.
Interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight.  Synonym: lay over.
2.
Interrupt a trip.  Synonym: stop.  "They stopped for three days in Florence"






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"Stop over" Quotes from Famous Books



... would rise up at once, strong in that blessed companionship. Cheerfully he made his preparations for starting, and now he turned Billy's head a trifle to the south, for he decided to stop over night with his colleague. ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill

... 'ad lots of fun there, but thought I'd look at the country for a change of air. Can't stay long, though; so don't press me to stop over a week." ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... it once," Lynde said, "when I thought the effect even finer. I was induced by some pleasant English tourists to stop over night at Magland, and we walked up here in the moonrise. You can't imagine anything so lovely as that long strip of gossamer unfolding itself to the moonlight. There was an English artist with us, who made a sketch of the fall; but he said a prettier ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... must go after lunch," said Mr. Spooner; "I'm expected home to dinner, and I don't know much whether they'll like me to stop over Sunday." ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope

... Connor, "we may as well all start together now; but as your ponies have had a good morning's work already, we can't expect to make the whole distance this evening. We'll stop over night at Thornburg's, twenty miles down, and go on again ...
— The Boys of Crawford's Basin - The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado • Sidford F. Hamp


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