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STOP OVER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Interrupt a trip
Example:
they stopped for three days in Florence
Synonyms:
stop; stop over
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "stop over" is one way to...):
break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stop over"):
call (make a stop in a harbour)
lay over; stop over (interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight
Example:
We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil
Synonyms:
lay over; stop over
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "stop over" is one way to...):
stop; stop over (interrupt a trip)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
stopover (a brief stay in the course of a journey)
