pull out all stops
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Definitions
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stopped or stopt; stop·ping.
- : to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- : to cause to cease; put an end to:to stop noise in the street.
- : to interrupt, arrest, or check: Stop your work just a minute.
- : to cut off, intercept, or withhold: to stop supplies.
- : to restrain, hinder, or prevent: I couldn't stop him from going.
- : to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.: to stop a speaker; to stop a car.
- : to block, obstruct, or close: He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch.
- : to fill the hole or holes in.
- : to close with a cork, plug, bung, or the like.
- : to close the external orifice of.
- : Sports. to check; parry; ward off.to defeat: The Browns stopped the Colts.Boxing.to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout: Louis stopped Conn in the 13th round.
- : Banking. to notify a bank to refuse payment of upon presentation.
- : Bridge. to have an honor card and a sufficient number of protecting cards to keep an opponent from continuing to win in.
- : Music. to close in order to produce a particular note from a wind instrument.to press down in order to alter the pitch of the tone produced from it.to produce by so doing.
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stopped or stopt; stop·ping.
- : to come to a stand, as in a course or journey; halt.
- : to cease moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.; to pause; desist.
- : to cease; come to an end.
- : to halt for a brief visit: He is stopping at the best hotel in town.
- : stop by, to make a brief visit on one's way elsewhere: I'll stop by on my way home.
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- : the act of stopping.
- : a cessation or arrest of movement, action, operation, etc.; end: The noise came to a stop. Put a stop to that behavior!
- : a stay or sojourn made at a place, as in the course of a journey: Above all, he enjoyed his stop in Trieste.
- : a place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and discharge passengers: Is this a bus stop?
- : a closing or filling up, as of a hole.
- : a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel.
- : a plug or other stopper for an opening.
- : an obstacle, impediment, or hindrance.
- : any piece or device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism.
- : Architecture. a feature terminating a molding or chamfer.
- : Commerce. an order to refuse payment of a check.stop order.
- : Music. the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a particular note.a device or contrivance, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this. a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality.Also called stop knob. a knob or handle that is drawn out or pushed back to permit or prevent the sounding of such a set of pipes or to control some other part of the organ. a group of reeds functioning like a pipe-organ stop.
- : Sports. an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a catch in baseball, a tackle in football, or the deflection of a shot in hockey.
- : Nautical. a piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, as a furled sail.
- : Phonetics. an articulation that interrupts the flow of air from the lungs.a consonant sound characterized by stop articulation, as p, b, t, d, k, and g.Compare continuant.
- : Photography. the diaphragm opening of a lens, especially as indicated by an f- number.
- : Building Trades. stop bead. doorstop.
- : any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, especially a period.
- : the word “stop” printed in the body of a telegram or cablegram to indicate a period.
- : stops, a family of card games whose object is to play all of one's cards in a predetermined sequence before one's opponents.
- : Zoology. a depression in the face of certain animals, especially dogs, marking the division between the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle.
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- : stop down, Photography. to reduce.
- : stop in, to make a brief, incidental visit: If you're in town, be sure to stop in.
- : stop off, to halt for a brief stay at some point on the way elsewhere: On the way to Rome we stopped off at Florence.
- : stop out, to mask with varnish, paper, or the like, to prevent their being etched, printed, etc.to withdraw temporarily from school: Most of the students who stop out eventually return to get their degrees.
- : stop over, to stop briefly in the course of a journey: Many motorists were forced to stop over in that town because of floods.
Phrases
- stop at nothing
- stop by
- stop cold
- stop in
- stop off
- stop payment
- stop short
- stop someone's clock
- stop the clock
- stop up
- buck stops here
- pull out all the stops
- put an end (a stop) to
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Now I have a plausible explanation for how I feel, putting a stop to some of the second-guessing going on in my head.
It seems like he’s going to continue to do this until someone puts a stop to it.
That promise was enough to quell a few lawsuits filed by California groups against the federal government for failing to put a stop to the sewage-filled stormwater rolling from Mexico’s hills.
The agency issued a stop sale, use or removal order, which is supposed to prevent the company from selling its product.
The chair of the Uptown Community Parking District board proposed using the funds for cleaning bus stops, but the city said no.
But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.
Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
The men were accused of reneging on pledges to stop working for the Iraqi government.
Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?
"But I can't stop to argue about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.
At twelve, or fifteen, or sixteen, or twenty it was decided that they should stop learning.
He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had made no effort whatever to stop the thief.
The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.
Yet when I stop gazing the next impulse is to move on; for if I have time to rest anywhere, why not at home?