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stopping over

stopping over is the present participle and gerund of stop over.

Meaning of stop over

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To interrupt one's journey for a short (sometimes overnight) stay.
    • Near-synonyms: stay over, lay over, lie over, stop off (all sometimes synonymous); see also Thesaurus:sojourn
  2. (intransitive) To stop by.
    • Near-synonyms: drop by, pop in, stop off (all sometimes synonymous)
    Synonyms:
    drop by, pop in, stop off

Questions about stopping over

What is stopping over the present participle and gerund of?
Stopping over is the present participle and gerund of stop over.

Words near stopping over in the dictionary

  1. stopping into
  2. stopping it
  3. stopping lead
  4. stopping off
  5. stopping out
  6. stopping over
  7. stopping power
  8. stopping press
  9. stopping service
  10. stopping services
  11. stopping short

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stopping over (page history and authors); stop over (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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