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come to a stop en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To stop moving or being active; to stop.
    • The TV broadcast suddenly came to a dead stop.
    • The car came to a stop in front of the house, and the front door opened, and a little girl—My sister, I thought, as if such a thing were as rare as a white elephant—came bounding out, the dark ringlets of her hair bouncing as she descended the porch steps and stopped to stare at me. 2021, Ed Tarkington, The Fortunate Ones, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, page 129:
  2. To reach a point where little progress is being made; to come to an impasse; to stop.
    • The renovation effort came to a juddering stop due to a lack of funding.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
came to a stop Tense=Past lexicographic
comes to a stop Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
coming to a stop Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
come to a stop Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

come to a stand

Translations (1)

it incagliarsi (reach a point of little progress)