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put a stop to

put a stop to verb: to terminate or abolish something.

Verb

put a stop to (third-person singular simple present puts a stop to, present participle putting a stop to, simple past and past participle put a stop to)

  1. (idiomatic) To terminate or abolish something.

put a stop to meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

put a stop to in Bengali

কিছু শেষ করা, বন্ধ করা

put a stop to in Malayalam

stop, end, put an end to
നിർത്തുക, നിറുത്തുക, മതിയാക്കുക, മുടക്കുക, മുറിക്കുക, അവസാനിപ്പിക്കുക

Synonyms of put a stop to

Forms of put a stop to

third-person singular presentputs a stop to
present participleputting a stop to
past participleput a stop to
pastput a stop to

Questions about put a stop to

What does put a stop to mean?
Put a stop to means to terminate or abolish something.
What is put a stop to in Bengali?
Put a stop to in Bengali is কিছু শেষ করা, বন্ধ করা. See Put a stop to meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is put a stop to?
Put a stop to is a verb.
What is the past tense of put a stop to?
The past tense of put a stop to is put a stop to.

Words near put a stop to in the dictionary

  1. put a slight on
  2. put a slight upon
  3. put a sock in it
  4. put a spanner in the works
  5. put a spoke in someone's wheel
  6. put a stop to
  7. put a stopper to
  8. put about
  9. put across
  10. put ahead
  11. put all one's eggs in one basket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put a stop to (page history and authors); put a stop to (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); put a stop to (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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