Stop Up

Definition: Stop Up

Stop Up

Verb

1. Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak".

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

Synonyms: Stop Up

Closure

Verb: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct;

Crosswords: Stop Up

Let me stop up here and use this pay (Just Be A Man About It; performing artist: Toni Braxton)

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

Expression using "stop up": stop up short. Additional references.

Albanian

tapos (bung, Cork, stop, stopple), mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سد (bar, barrage, block, bung, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, floodgate, foul, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, occlusion, pack, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stuff, tamp, wad, weir). (various references)

Bulgarian 

запълвам (engage, fill in, fill out, supply), запушвам (bung, close, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, stop, stopper, stopple, stuff, wad, wall up). (various references)

Chinese 

閉塞 (blocking, close up, hard to get to, inaccessible, out of the way, unenlightened), 閉 (obstruct, shut, to close), �' (obstruct), 壅 (obstruct), 塞 (piston, strategic pass, to squeeze in, to stuff, unenlightened), � � . (various references)

Czech

zacpat (block, fill, stop), zùstat vzhùru (stay up), ucpat se (foul). (various references)

Danish

tilstoppe (to fill up, to pack, to stop up, to stuff). (various references)

Dutch

stoppen (block, cease, clog, come to a halt, constipate, fill, fill in, fill up, halt, lay down, mend, patch, patch up, place, plug up, put, put down, stop), volstoppen (block, clog, plug up), verstoppen (block, clog, conceal, constipate, hamper, hide, hinder, impede, obstruct, plug up, stand in the way of), toestoppen (block, clog, envelop, plug up), dichtmaken (block, clog, close, plug up, shut), dichten (block, clog, plug up). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝtopi (block, clog, plug up). (various references)

Faeroese

tippa (block, clog, hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, plug up, stand in the way of). (various references)

Finnish

tukkia (block, obstruct, plug, shut, stop). (various references)

French

boucher (stop, stuff). (various references)

German

zustopfen (block, clog, darn, pack, plug, plug up, tamp, to stop up), verstopfen (block, block up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, constipate, engorge, foul, jam, jam up, occlude, plug, plug up, stop, to constipate, to engorge, to occlude). (various references)

Greek 

ξαγρυπνώ (be sleepless, sit up), ταπώνω (plug). (various references)

Hebrew 

לסתום (choke, clog, close up, conceal, plug, shut, stop, wad). (various references)

Hungarian

eltöm (occlude, to caulk, to clog, to clog up, to gag, to grout, to obturate, to occlude, to silt up), betöm (to bung, to bung up, to close up, to darn, to plug, to plug up, to wad), bedugaszol (bung, Cork, plug, to bung, to bung up, to cork, to plug up, to spike, to spile). (various references)

Italian

stare alzato, tamponare (crash into, dab, plug, stanch, staunch, stop, tampon, wad), otturare (block, close, fill, obstruct, seal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

壅ぐ (to block, to close up, to fill up, to occupy, to plug up, to shut up, to stand in another's way, to stop up, to take up), 塞ぐ (to block, to close up, to fill up, to occupy, to plug up, to shut up, to stand in another's way, to stop up, to take up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふさぐ (to block, to close up, to fill up, to occupy, to plug up, to shut up, to stand in another's way, to stop up, to take up). (various references)

Manx

dooney (barricade, block, button up, cadence, clench, closure, filling, imprisonment, lacing up, occlude, occlusion, secure, shut, shut down, swing), calkey (calk). (various references)

Pig Latin

opstay upay

Portuguese

tapar (choke, clog, close, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, shut, stopper, stopple, stuff), fechar (bar, berate, box, chain, close, coffin, drub, fasten, immure, impound, lock, mure, occlude, pen, pin down, rail, seal, shut, shut in, snap, stopple, to close, turn off). (various references)

Romanian

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

Russian 

не ложиться спать, затыкать (bung, caulk, obturate, shut up, stem, stop, stopple, stoppling, stuff), заткнуть. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapušiti (block, clog, congest, gag, jam, obturate, occlude, plug, stop, stopple). (various references)

Spanish

velar (back, fog, keep vigil, mist, veil, velar, wait up, wake), tapar (cap, close, cover, fill, plug, screen, seal, shield, stop, tap), empachar (handicap, hinder, impede, thwart, to spoil), atascar (bog down, bung up, choke, clog, congest, engorge, foul, jam, obstruct, occlude, plug). (various references)

Swedish

täta (caulk, make tight, pack, seal, stop, tighten), täppa (Croft, garden plot, obstruct, patch, plat, plot). (various references)

Turkish

tıkamak (block, block up, bung, bung up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, engorge, foul, foul up, glut, hold, jam, obliterate, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, seal off, Spike, spile, stop, stopple, stuff, tampon, wad), kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, confine, coop, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, fence in, hang up, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shut up, shutter, stop, top, turn off, turn out, wind up, wipe out). (various references)

Ukrainian

не лягати спати (sit up, stay up, wait up), затикати (bung, caulk, fill, obturate, plug, wad). (various references)

Welsh

topio (plug). (various references)

oppilabit, oppilatae, oppilaverunt. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pouts, spout, stoup.

-2 letters: opts, opus, oust, outs, pops, post, pots, pout, pups, puts, soup, spot, stop, tops, tups.

-3 letters: ops, opt, out, pop, pot, pup, pus, put, sop, sot, sou, sup, top, tup, upo, ups, uts.

-4 letters: op, os, so, to, up, us, ut.

+1 letter: support.

+2 letters: populist, postcoup, purports, supports, trappous, uptempos.

+3 letters: populates, populists, pupations, superport, supported, supporter, unstopped, unstopper, uppermost.

+4 letters: impromptus, nonsupport, populistic, postpartum, potpourris, pourpoints, propitious, propositus, prospectus, superports, suppletion, suppletory, supporters, supporting, supportive, supraoptic, tropopause, turboprops, unstoppers, unstopping.

+5 letters: depopulates, nonsupports, opportunism, opportunist, outstripped, pittosporum, populations, postnuptial, postpuberty, precipitous, precomputes, presumption, rapporteurs, repopulates, superpolite, superprofit, suppletions, supportable, supposition, suppository, suppuration, tropopauses, unstoppable, unstoppably, unstoppered, unsupported.