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stoped

stoped is the simple past and past participle of stope.

Meaning of stope

Verb

stope (third-person singular simple present stopes, present participle stoping, simple past and past participle stoped)

  1. To excavate in the form of stopes.
  2. To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

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Questions about stoped

What is stoped the simple past and past participle of?
Stoped is the simple past and past participle of stope.

Words near stoped in the dictionary

  1. stopcocking
  2. stopcocks
  3. stopcodon
  4. stopcodons
  5. stope
  6. stoped
  7. stoper
  8. stoperator
  9. stoperators
  10. stopers
  11. stopes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stoped (page history and authors); stope (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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