(n)arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppagethe state of inactivity following an interruption“the negotiations were in arrest”, “held them in check”, “during the halt he got some lunch”, “the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow”, “he spent the entire stop in his seat”
(n)period, point, full stop, stop, full pointa punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations“in England they call a period a stop”
(v)check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold backhold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of“Arrest the downward trend”, “Check the growth of communism in South East Asia”, “Contain the rebel movement”, “Turn back the tide of communism”
(v)end, stop, finish, terminate, ceasehave an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical“the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed”, “Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other”, “My property ends by the bushes”, “The symphony ends in a pianissimo”