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Stop up
To fill a hole or cavity, or block an opening or passage, as with a plug.
📖 Definitions of "Stop up"
verb
- 1
To fill a hole or cavity, or block an opening or passage, as with a plug.
- 2
To increase the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a higher number to an f/stop represented by a lower number and causing more light to pass into the camera.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Stop up"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| secureverb | Free from attack or danger; protected. |
| plugnoun | (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. |
| plug upverb | (transitive) To put a plug or bung into something; to interrupt the flow of. |
| stopplenoun | A plug; a stopper. |
| wedge upverb | (transitive) To fill or block up with wedges. |
| infillnoun | That which fills in a space, hole or gap. |
| cack upverb | (transitive, slang) To mess up; to get seriously wrong. |
| bung upverb | (British, New Zealand, of a person) To close (an opening) with a cork, cork-like object or other improvised obstruction. |
| chocknoun | Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling. |
| chokeverb | (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict). |
| fill inverb | (transitive, idiomatic) To inform somebody, especially to supply someone missing or missed information. |
| obturateverb | To block up or obstruct. |
| fillverb | (transitive, ergative) To make full |
| blocknoun | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. |
| spacklenoun | A plastic paste meant for filling cracks and holes in plaster. |
| bungnoun | A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. |
| tamponadenoun | (medicine) A stoppage in the flow of blood in a vessel, caused either by the insertion of a tampon or by outside constriction. |
| fill upverb | (transitive) To make (something) completely full. |
| build upverb | (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually. |
| stuffnoun | (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects. |
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