stop up

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as inblock
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Word Origin & History

Old English -stoppian (in forstoppian "to stop up, stifle"), a general West Germanic word (cf. West Frisian stopje, Middle Low German stoppen, Old High German stopfon, German stopfen "to plug, stop up," Old Low Frankish (be)stuppon "to stop (the ears)"), but held by many sources to be a borrowing from Vulgar Latin *stuppare "to stop or stuff with tow or oakum" (cf. Italian stoppare, French étouper "to stop with tow"), from Latin stuppa "coarse part of flax, tow." Plugs made of tow were used from ancient times in Rhine valley. Barnhart, at least, proposes the whole Germanic group rather might be native, from a base *stoppon.

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Example Sentences for stop up

Then he tried to stop up the entrance to their den with his coat, so that he could catch them.

And what can it be, that can so fill thy mind as to stop up all its entrances?

I'm to stop up half an hour later than Peter, Rona; do you hear that?

We shall cease then to stop up the street, and you can go on your way with your bier.

Then we had to stop up the holes with anything ...

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block

blocked

blocking

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clogged

close

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blocked

blocking

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clogged

close

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