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Stoppage   /stˈɑpɪdʒ/   Listen
Stoppage

noun
1.
The state of inactivity following an interruption.  Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop.  "Held them in check" , "During the halt he got some lunch" , "The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow" , "He spent the entire stop in his seat"
2.
An obstruction in a pipe or tube.  Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stop.
3.
The act of stopping something.  Synonym: stop.  "His stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"



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"Stoppage" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Detroit, far northward, with a note of warning for Major Gladwyn the commander. He believed that with the stoppage of the belt he had checked the plan. Major Gladwyn, in turn, reported to his superiors that this "was a trifling ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin

... the fireplace and rested his elbow on the mantel. He had turned his back on Maxine, and volumes could not have said more than what was expressed by that abrupt stoppage of ...
— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... The stoppage was made in sight of the village of Coary, a dozen houses, considerably dilapidated, built in the midst of a thick mass of orange ...
— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne

... her, but the sudden stoppage of the chaise had left no place in the tutor's mind for aught but terror. At any moment, now the chaise was at a stand, the door might open and he be hauled out to meet the fury of his pupil's eye, and feel the ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman

... hundred yards beyond Browndean, however, a sudden jarring of brakes set everybody's teeth on edge, and there was a brutal stoppage. Morris Finsbury was aware of a confused uproar of voices, and sprang to the window. Women were screaming, men were tumbling from the windows on the track, the guard was crying to them to stay where they were; at the same time the train began to gather way and move very slowly backward toward ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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