stemmed

verbcome from
verbprevent, stop

Synonyms for stemmed

verb come from

Antonyms for stemmed

Word Origin & History

Old English stemn, stefn "stem of a plant," also "either end-post of a ship," from Proto-Germanic *stamniz (cf. Old Saxon stamm, Old Norse stafn "stem of a ship;" Danish stamme, Swedish stam "trunk of a tree;" Old High German stam, German Stamm), from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).

Meaning "support of a wineglass" is from 1835. Stem-winding watches (1875) were advanced and desirable when introduced, hence slang stem-winder "excellent thing" (1892). The nautical sense is preserved in the phrase stem to stern "along the full length" (of a ship), attested from 1620s. The verbal phrase stems from, first recorded 1932, American English, translates German stammen aus, probably from a figurative sense represented by English stem (n.) in the sense of "stock of a family, line of descent" (c.1540; cf. family tree, and German stammvater "tribal ancestor," literally "stem-father"). Stem cell attested by 1885.

Example Sentences for stemmed

She stemmed the flood of his protestations with a hand on his arm.

It was contentment, and it stemmed from the basic emotion love.

The popular feeling was so strong that Pitt could not have stemmed it if he would.

She stemmed and stemmed until her hands were sticky and her fingers ached.

She stemmed both hands on it as if finding the support necessary.

Oh, if he had but considered in time; if he had but stemmed this flood at its source!

This roused the storekeeper to a burst of protest, but he stemmed it.

Mrs Henderson calmed down, and the torrent of her abuse was stemmed.

He rose to power in 1758; and at once stemmed the tide of disaster to France.

But the tide could no longer be stemmed and in rushed Mme. Nalasky.