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stop up

VERB
  1. fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
    stop up the leak
    plug the hole

How To Use stop up In A Sentence

  • A bold and ingenious treatment of the vaulting shaft of the tower groining is used on these piers; on the western ones the shafts stop upon the ends of the hood moulding. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
  • stop up the leak
  • When the roughcast was delivered to me, I had to stop up the air holes and the core hole, to correct the various defects, and to polish the bronze with files and very fine emery.
  • Some tried to stop up the leaks while others tried to steady the rudder.
  • What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.
  • Under California law, those payments should stop upon the death of the payee, which is Michael Jackson. CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2009
  • She often had to stop up to 40 times during a training session and had to pull out of major competitions because she felt dizzy or faint.
  • They's a pothole right before the four-way stop up ahead, though. SORT OF RICH
  • By insulating a previously uninsulated house you stop up to one tonne of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere each year. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have to stop up to finish my homework tonight.
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