stop

From Wiktionary

stop is part of the Basic English 850.

[change] Pronunciation

• enPR: stŏp
• IPA: /stɒp/
• SAMPA: /stQp/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

[change] Verb

Plain form stop

Third-person singular stops

Past tense stopped

Past participle stopped

Present participle stopping

1. To come to the end of the time when one is doing something; to start doing a different thing or to start doing nothing. To stop moving is to start resting still in one place.

   I stopped playing video games and went back to working on my project.