Another word for stop dead

1 to stop living

• the king died of old age after a long and fruitful reign

2 to come to an end

• the storm died just as dawn was breaking over the horizon

3 to stop functioning

• fortunately, when the engine died we were only two blocks from home

1 as in close, cul-de-sac

• close
• [chiefly British],
• cul-de-sac

• arterial,
• artery,
• avenue,
• boulevard,
• carriageway
• [British],
• drag,
• drive,
• expressway,
• freeway,
• high road,
• highway,
• pass,
• pike,
• road,
• roadway,
• route,
• row,
• thoroughfare,
• thruway,
• trace,
• turnpike,
• way

• circle,
• lane,
• laneway
• [British],
• mews
• [chiefly British],
• place

2 as in problem, Mexican standoff

• bind,
• bottleneck,
• corner,
• dilemma,
• fix,
• hole,
• jam,
• morass,
• pickle,
• pinch,
• plight,
• predicament,
• quagmire,
• quandary,
• spot

What is another word for stop dead?

Pronunciation:

Synonyms for Stop dead:

• •cut short [verb]
  • break short,
  • break off,
  • freeze,
  • shorten,
  • check,
  • interrupt,
  • stop,
  • abridge,
  • abort,
  • clip,
  • finish,
  • stop cold,
  • end,
  • abbreviate,
  • hinder,
  • terminate,
  • bring to an end; leave unfinished,
  • quit,
  • intercept,
  • curtail,
  • stop short,
  • checkmate,
  • diminish,
  • postpone,
  • put a stop to,
  • halt.
  •Other relevant words: [verb] •paralyze [verb]
  • close,
  • benumb,
  • disarm,
  • prostrate,
  • daunt,
  • nonplus,
  • shut down,
  • bemuse,
  • astound,
  • deaden,
  • disable,
  • weaken,
  • destroy,
  • appall,
  • incapacitate,
  • stun,
  • transfix,
  • petrify,
  • lame,
  • debilitate,
  • knock out,
  • daze,
  • demolish,
  • numb,
  • stupefy,
  • enfeeble.
  •transfix [verb]
  • rivet,
  • enchant,
  • fascinate,
  • hypnotize,
  • stop in one's tracks,
  • engross,
  • root,
  • spellbind,
  • stop one dead,
  • captivate,
  • bewitch,
  • mesmerize,
  • hold.
• •cut short •Other relevant words:
  • Laming,
  • anesthetized,
  • Palsying,
  • anesthetize,
  • Lamed,
  • paralyze,
  • Lames,
  • anesthetizes,
  • bring to grinding halt,
  • cut short,
  • Palsies,
  • make nerveless,
  • make inert,
  • anesthetizing,
  • palsy.
  •Other relevant words [noun]:
  • stall,
  • stick,
  • fetch up,
  • arrest,
  • hang fire,
  • deadlock,
  • stay,
  • bring to,
  • brake,
  • stalemate,
  • dam,
  • draw up,
  • blow the whistle,
  • block,
  • stem,
  • bring up.

• • paralyze
    mobilize, encourage, soothe, repair, embolden, please, build, release, clear up, bore, restore, construct, enlighten, stimulate, comfort, strengthen, enliven, aid, explain, improve, assist, incite, help.
  • transfix
    repel, repulse, disenchant, disgust, turn off, look away.

• stupidity, set about, stub out, St. Bede, shot put, stop bath, stave wood, stoop to, stopped, sex activity, seedpod, sudafed, step out, stay put, St. Beda, St. David, sweet potato, stooped, stuffed, stabbed, stupefied, sixty-fifth, stupid, stephead, St. Baeda, stovepiped, seedbed.

Is it any wonder that since the spring of 1999, when zero interest rates debuted and taxpayer funds began pouring into the banks, progress in reducing bad debt has stopped dead in its tracks?

His face adorns billboards and T-shirts, and Cuban cities have stopped dead as thousands of protesters lined the streets to support his father's case.

By the time I reached puberty, I began to wear towering platform shoes and even to swish down the street twirling a cane, a prop that grabbed the attention of bewildered rubberneckers who stopped dead in their tracks--stunned, no doubt, by my unerring fashion sense.

A similar dramatic event on the Boise occurred several years ago at Tiger Creek, where a crowning wildfire stopped dead in its tracks upon reaching an earlier prescribed burn [see "The Boise Quickstep," American Forests, January/February 1993].

nowhere has the wind stopped dead in its tracks, like a mother in the aftermath of massacre refusing the offered cup, the whole world distilled into a thimbleful of blood.

There were 11 chicks this year--we have the only reproducing flock." He maneuvered the Pisces down a narrow canal and stopped dead as a pair of cranes began feeding in the shallow water, maybe 300 feet away.

With his career stopped dead in mid-track, he looked around for a new business to get started with, something he knew and enjoyed.

only six to 12 people were needed to operate the assembly line." Peine says the fine in Springfield often stopped dead for lack of shipments from Mexico.

From recent work on the ice streams, glaciologists know these features are undergoing rapid changes: Some are speeding up, whereas others have stopped dead. Because of such events, researchers regard the ice streams as critical to understanding West Antarctica.

Talking about the Oscar-nominated actor who recently made his directorial debut with Lady gaga starrer 'A Star Is Born', the singer told E News that when she heard him sing for the first time, she stopped dead in her tracks, playing the piano, looked over to him and said, "Bradley, you can sing!

Then he stopped dead in front of the Queen, forcing the embarrassed 5ft 4in royal to navigate round the burly 6ft 3in president.