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STOP UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

Example:

stop up the leak

Synonyms:

plug; secure; stop up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "stop up" is one way to...):

close; fill up (fill or stop up)

"Stop up" entails doing...:

enter; infix; insert; introduce (put or introduce into something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stop up"):

stopper; stopple (close or secure with or as if with a stopper)

tampon (plug with a tampon)

chink (fill the chinks of, as with caulking)

cork; cork up (close a bottle with a cork)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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