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stopped by

stopped by is the simple past and past participle of stop by.

Meaning of stop by

Verb

stop by (third-person singular simple present stops by, present participle stopping by, simple past and past participle stopped by)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, by.
    • The car stopped by the side of the road.
  2. To pay a visit briefly and informally.
    • I'll stop by this afternoon to collect it.

Questions about stopped by

What is stopped by the simple past and past participle of?
Stopped by is the simple past and past participle of stop by.

Words near stopped by in the dictionary

  1. stopped and smelled the flowers
  2. stopped and smelled the roses
  3. stopped and smelt the flowers
  4. stopped and smelt the roses
  5. stopped at nothing
  6. stopped by
  7. stopped clock illusion
  8. stopped cold
  9. stopped dead
  10. stopped down
  11. stopped in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stopped by (page history and authors); stop by (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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