stop

I stopped at the traffic lights.

The riots stopped when police moved in.

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?

One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.

The referees stopped the fight.

When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.

He stopped the wound with gauze.

To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.

to stop with a friend

if his sentences were properly stopped

th-stopping

It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.