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Stop Dead

Definition: Stop Dead

Stop Dead

Verb

1. Stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Stop Dead

Synonym: freeze (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Stop Dead

Language Translations for "stop dead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

pysähtyä äkkiä (stop short). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyökeret ver a lába (to stop dead in one's tracks). (various references)

   

Italian

  

impuntarsi (be obstinate, jib). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

opstay eadday

   

Romanian

  

se opri brusc (fetch up, jib, pull up short, stop short, stop up short). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tvärstanna (come to a dead stop). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Stop Dead

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-o-p-s-t"

-1 letter: adopted, podesta.

-2 letters: adepts, adopts, dadoes, depots, despot, doated, oddest, pasted, posted, sapote, soaped, spaded, stoped.

-3 letters: adept, adopt, apods, dados, dated, dates, datos, deads, depot, doats, doest, dopas, doped, dopes, dosed, doted, dotes, estop, opted, paseo, paste, pated, pates, peats, pesto, poets, posed, psoae, sated, septa, spade, spado, spaed, spate, spode, stade.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-o-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: postdated.

 

+3 letters: depredators, paddleboats.

 

+4 letters: depredations, disappointed, postdeadline.

 

+5 letters: decompensated, dodecaphonist, endopeptidase, superaddition.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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