stop up
stop up verb: to fill a hole or cavity, or block (an opening or passage), as with a plug.
Verb
stop up (third-person singular simple present stops up, present participle stopping up, simple past and past participle stopped up)
- To fill a hole or cavity, or block (an opening or passage), as with a plug.
- So then we […] scratched around and found an old tin washpan, and stopped up the holes as well as we could.1885, Mark Twain, chapter 37, in Huckleberry Finn
- To permanently close or block (a road or path); to legally extinguish a right of way.
- To increase the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a higher number to an f/stop represented by a lower number and causing more light to pass into the camera.
- To stop down means to narrow the aperture; to stop up or open up means to expand it.2002, Kathleen Tracy, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Portrait Photography, →ISBN, page 18
stop up meaning in Tamil
stop up in Tamil
- to stop up
- அடை aṭai
Antonyms of stop up
Forms of stop up
| third-person singular present | stops up |
|---|---|
| present participle | stopping up |
| past participle | stopped up |
| past | stopped up |
Questions about stop up
- What does stop up mean?
- Stop up means to fill a hole or cavity, or block (an opening or passage), as with a plug.
- What is stop up in Tamil?
- Stop up in Tamil is அடை (aṭai). See Stop up meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is stop up?
- Stop up is a verb.
- What is the past tense of stop up?
- The past tense of stop up is stopped up.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stop up (page history and authors); அடை (Tamil) (page history and authors). 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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