stopped
past simple and past participle of
stop
Meaning of stopped in English
(Definition of stopped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of stopped
stopped
Whenever an equilibrium force-law is required, it is always essential to establish that the two surfaces have stopped moving before the equilibrium displacements are measured.
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One patient received terminal sedation, but treatment for depression was stopped in the other 18 patients because of the development of terminal delirium.
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Participants read the sentences word by word and pressed the space bar as soon as they thought the sentence had stopped making sense.
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Participants read sentences one word at a time and were required to indicate as soon as they thought that the sentence had stopped making sense.
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The language was no longer supported in the schools or in the workplace, and soon stopped being spoken in the home.
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Gradually from then he became very withdrawn, and he stopped reading the papers.
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When the researcher finished reading the story to the child, she stopped the music, and proposed a game.
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As noted earlier, pension entitlements are relatively better amongst women who stopped work than amongst other female carers.
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Stopped-flow solution scattering using synchrotron radiation: apparatus, data collection and data analysis.
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Namely, it can continue to exist after its initial creation and indeed even after all the participants involved have stopped thinking about the initial creation.
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In this problem, the integration is stopped only after the particle has spent a complete gyro-period exclusively in the upstream region.
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So the practice of institutionalising orphans and abandoned children stopped very soon.
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Shortly after noon, the batteries in the scanning machine failed and the registration process stopped.
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Optimisations are stopped as soon as the value of this function drops below a defined threshold.
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Otherwise, the current motion is stopped due to the computational delays.
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