Synonyms for stopping
stop·ping

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1. fillet, stoppingnoun

   fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members

   Synonyms:
   taenia, fish fillet, fillet, filet, fish filet, tenia, lemniscus

2. stoppingnoun

   the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch

   "the violinist's stopping was excellent"

   Synonyms:
   fillet

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1. • Fastener
   • Playing

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1. List of paraphrases for "stopping":

   stop, halting, halt, arrest, cessation, curbing, cease, judgment, arresting, stoping, stoppage, braking, parking, ending, parada, suspending

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1. Elizabeth Smart:

   Elizabeth Smart was held captive by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, for nine months, and the case captivated the nation just months after the 2002 Winter Olympics took place in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Smart was raped, tethered to trees by steel cables and left without food and water for days at a time. Elizabeth Smart recalled what Elizabeth Smart said to Brian David Mitchell on the night Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. There finally came a point where I remember stopping Brian David Mitchell and just saying, ‘ If you're just going to rape and kill me, please do it here,' because in my mind I was thinking I want my parents to know what happened to me, I wanted them to find me even if it was just my body, brian David Mitchell had this smile and it was just, it was bone chilling … Brian David Mitchell said, ‘ I'm not going to rape and murder you. Yet,' Elizabeth Smart added. Wanda Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010, and Brian David Mitchell is serving two life terms. Elizabeth Smart will talk about how Elizabeth Smart moved past the harrowing incident 15 years later, according to E ! News. The special will air on Nov. 12 and 13 before the Lifetime original movie.

2. Vander Plaats:

   If it stays this big, Trump will be your nominee. If Trump wins in Iowa, I don’t see anybody stopping him after that, but there is an appetite for somebody other than Trump. If you’re going to beat him, it has to get to one-on-one or two-on-one.

3. Ann McNeil:

   There is no evidence that e-cigarettes are undermining England's falling smoking rates, instead the evidence consistently finds that e-cigarettes are another tool for stopping smoking and in my view smokers should try vaping, and vapers should stop smoking entirely.

4. Donald Tusk:

   More and more people are starting to believe that only strong-handed authority, anti-European and anti-liberal in spirit, with a tendency towards overt authoritarianism, is capable of stopping the wave of illegal migration, if people believe them, that only they can offer an effective solution to the migration crisis, they will also believe anything else they say.

5. Barb Moles:

   I was just intent upon stopping him, i didn’t have any other thought in my head. I just knew I had to stop him.