All stopper synonyms
stopΒ·per
S s noun stopper
- high point β a city in central North Carolina.
- bung β A bung is a round piece of wood, cork, or rubber which you use to close the hole in a container such as a barrel or flask.
- damper β A damper is a small sheet of metal in a fire, boiler, or furnace that can be moved to increase or reduce the amount of air that enters.
- bobber β a small float, traditionally made of cork, used in angling
- gasket β a rubber, metal, or rope ring, for packing a piston or placing around a joint to make it watertight.
- cap β A cap is a soft, flat hat with a curved part at the front which is called a peak. Caps are usually worn by men and boys.
- bullpen β In baseball, a bullpen is an area alongside the playing field, where pitchers can practice or warm up.
- cover β If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- closure β The closure of a place such as a business or factory is the permanent ending of the work or activity there.
- amazement β Amazement is the feeling you have when something surprises you very much.
- cork β Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
- oak β any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Quercus, of the beech family, bearing the acorn as fruit.
- finial β Architecture. a relatively small, ornamental, terminal feature at the top of a gable, pinnacle, etc.
- fig leaf β the leaf of a fig tree.
- fastigium β the highest point of a fever or disease; the period of greatest development of an infection.
- confoundment β The state of being confounded.
verb stopper
- leave out β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- clog β When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
- corking β excellent
- caulk β If you caulk something such as a boat, you fill small cracks in its surface in order to prevent it from leaking.
- obstruct β to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- caulking β to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
- bunged β a stopper for the opening of a cask.
- occlude β to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
- gibbet β a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- gibbeting β a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- fill β to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- garrote β a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- blockaded β the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- get in the way β be an obstacle
- hang up β the way in which a thing hangs.
- choke off β To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
- corked β (of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin
- garroted β a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- entrammel β To hamper by entangling.
- drag one's feet β to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- gummed β covered with a gummy substance.
- choke β When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
- block β A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- waterproofed β Having been made waterproof.
- garroting β a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- lock out β a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- waterproofing β Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.