STOPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stopped mean? 

• STOPPED (adjective)
  The adjective STOPPED has 1 sense:

1. (of a nose) blocked

  Familiarity information: STOPPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a nose) blocked

Synonyms:

stopped; stopped-up; stopped up

Context example:

a stopped (or stopped-up) nose

Similar:

obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)

 Context examples 

My guide stopped and looked about her like one who is at her wit’s end.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the Professor never stopped for a moment; he sawed down a couple of feet along one side of the lead coffin, and then across, and down the other side.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Due to its non-genotoxic carcinogenicity, clinical development for this agent has stopped.

(Bemitradine, NCI Thesaurus)

U.S. production of chlordane was stopped in 1976.

(Chlordane, NCI Thesaurus)

Fifteen patients successfully stopped immunosuppression medications a year after the transplant.

(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)

Then he stopped, undecided, and looked back over his shoulder.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They showed that deleting the gene in mice that produces this protein stopped brown fat from functioning.

(Study in mice suggests drug to turn fat ‘brown’ could help fight obesity, University of Cambridge)

The car stopped at the front door; it was opened by a maid-servant; I alighted and went in.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They found that MC4R gene variants linked to higher obesity risk stopped the gene from working, whereas variants that offered protection against obesity kept the gene ‘switched on’.

(Discovery of genetic variants that protect against obesity and type 2 diabetes could lead to new weight loss medicines, University of Cambridge)

The flow of blood to and from the limb is temporarily stopped with a tourniquet (a tight band around the limb), and anticancer drugs are put directly into the blood of the limb.

(Isolated limb perfusion, NCI Dictionary)