lay off 'put an end to a state or an activity' discontinue 'put an end to a state or an activity' give up 'put an end to a state or an activity' quit 'put an end to a state or an activity' stop 'put an end to a state or an activity' cease 'put an end to a state or an activity'
cut conclude stall kill discontinue halt cut out cut off cease stop end finish quit terminate close deactive
quit 'FN: stop doing something' abandon 'COD: give up (an action or practice) completely.
[FN: this is distinct from abandoning a belief]' discontinue 'COD: stop doing, providing, or making.' cease 'COD: come or bring to an end; stop.' halt 'COD: bring or come to an abrupt stop' stop 'COD: discontinue an action, practice, or habit.' terminate 'COD: bring to an end.'
NP (Agent) V () DNI (Activity) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) PP[after] (Circumstances) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) AVP (Degree) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) Sub (Explanation) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) PP[on] (Explanation) AVP (Time) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) Sub (Explanation) PP[ago] (Time) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) AVP (Manner) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[in] (Re-encoding) AVP (Time) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) AVP (Time) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) NP (Time) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) Sub (Time) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) 2nd (Circumstances) PP[after] (Time) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[in] (Containing_event) PP[at] (Time) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[for] (Duration) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[on] (Explanation) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) 2nd (Explanation) PP[after] (Time) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[because of] (Explanation) PP[in] (Time) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[by] (Time) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[in] (Containing_event) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) Sub (Explanation) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[as] (Re-encoding) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) PP[in] (Time) NP (Agent) V () VPto (Activity) AVP (Degree) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) PP[for] (Duration) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) VPing (Explanation) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[at] (Frequency) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) AVP (Frequency) PP[whilst] (Time) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) 2nd (Place) NP (Agent) V () VPto (Activity) AVP (Time) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[after] (Circumstances) PP[in] (Time) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) AVP (Manner) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[by] (Means) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) VPing (Result) AVP (Time) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) PP[after] (Time) PP[before] (Time) NP (Agent) V () VPing (Activity) PP[after] (Explanation) NP (Agent) V () NP (Activity) VPing (Purpose) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Affector) V () S_ING (Eventuality)
NP (Affector) V () NP.eventuality (Eventuality) PP.subeventuality[with] (Subeventuality)
NP.eventuality (Eventuality) V ()
NP (Subeventuality) V () NP.eventuality (Eventuality)
Examples from WordNet
Quit teasing your little brother
Examples from VerbNet
The storm ended. He stopped eating the popsicle. John cut the engine. He ended the party with fireworks. A wedding ended the book.
Examples from SemCor
He worked standing, with his left hand in his pocket as_though he were merely stopping for a moment, sketching with the surprised stare of one who was watching another person 's hand. After reading`` Plowman 's Folly'' by Edward_H._Faulkner, he stopped plowing. His stick ceased to be a thing to rest his chin on and became a pointer for emphasizing the finer aspects of his text. The two cities have the examples of Little_Rock and New_Orleans to hold_up as warnings against resorting to violence to try to stop the processes of desegregation. Never,`` Quit that, you sor' l devil''! Actually, there was a_lot of force in him, which is why I kept_on in that class instead of quitting after a week. He stopped every few minutes and leaned_on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each_day dragging_out with monotonous calm. No one knows where it will stop. Curt was in almost as bad shape, but he would quit. Gov._John_M._Dalton, himself a lawyer and a man of long service in government, spoke with rich background and experience when he said in an address here that lawyers ought to quit sitting in the Missouri General_Assembly, or quit accepting fees from individuals and corporations who have controversies with or axes_to_grind with the government and who are retained, not because of their legal talents, but because of their government influence. Roberta glanced at him and stopped trembling. This time she stopped the rush of words herself. When he saw Tommy sitting alone, the tinkling sound stopped. Speaking from long years of experience, Mrs._Long advised the Juniors:`` When showing dogs ceases to be fun and excitement, Stop! Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work. I think his name stopped the snoring but he did move except to roll a_little when I shoved him. Stop the engines''! If we go_into this Common_Market, we might just_as well stop talking_about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for_that_matter, conservatism in_general. Each high note had the crowd in ecstasy so that it stopped the show midway in the`` Mad_Scene'', but the real reason was a realization of the extraordinary performance unfolding at the moment. The pattern would not stop. On April 1, 1953, after some six months of full-time`` pioneering'', petitioner discontinued devoting 100 hours a month to preaching, but failed to so notify his local board. The thin man stopped his pacing long enough to glance at the clock. Macneff stopped pacing to stare at Hal with his pale blue eyes. He stopped pacing, leaned_against the dank, timbered wall and let his mind drift. They stopped expecting her to die the next minute, but only in the next day or two. He swung toward the front to give the news to Hettie, then stopped, barred from her by the vehemence of her blame and hate. `` Ca you stop that stupid clowning for even a minute''? The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest. In Chicago, some time ago, Mr._H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a`` magic spike''- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent- sold by the Vrilium_Company of Chicago for$ 306 as a cure-all. `` I mean, we do n't have any way to get there and we can n't expect you to quit work just to take us to town''. Maggie started laughing, and she laughed so hard she could n't stop, and she kept_on laughing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to hang them up while the sun was still shining. Dashiell_Hammett resolved this contradiction by ceasing to write mystery_stories and turning_to other pursuits. At the old nest, the queen will in the early fall cease to lay the eggs that will produce females. If they can n't chalk_up big business here then let 's stop this noise about how hip we are, and stick_to our community singing. The only hope which good teachers have for being paid their due is to stop dragging the dead weight of poor teachers up the economic ladder with them. They all had the hard look of gamblers who had stopped dreaming, who automatically turned the cards, hardly caring what showed_up. He stopped stirring and looked over his shoulder. Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware_of all he said. The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U._S._Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed. The heavens refused to give_up their weeping. Furthermore, Bern decrees that we must do as we are ordered by the Council, preach only the word_of_God and stop meddling in politics''! Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and''- He stopped and looked at Thor 's body. There can be no_doubt that the American_Catholic accomplishment in the field of higher education is most impressive: our European brethren never cease to marvel at the number and the size of our colleges and universities. `` Stop! He saw the child-face grimace as the head was cut; he felt the far, cool flash of unimportant pain, as B' dikkat dabbed the wound with a corrosive antiseptic which stopped all bleeding immediately. Or it could have chosen to find- by negotiation- some way of stopping the tests without loss to national security. The last-named is a fine-looking, large colt, who has been unfortunate to be laid_off for_some_time due_to injuries. For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair_shops, gasoline_pumps and longshoremen 's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there. Hughes said Monday,`` It is the apparent intention of the Republican_Party to campaign on the carcass of_what they call Eisenhower_Republicanism, but the heart stopped beating and the lifeblood congealed after Eisenhower retired. If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at_all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like`` Hurrah'' or`` Fiddlesticks'', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at_rest. `` Why do n't you bastards lay_off for_a_while''? An Ohio soldier who, from a comrade just returned from leave, received an unfavorable comment on the conduct of his sister, took pen in hand and delivered himself thus:``[ Dear Sis] Alf sed he heard that you and hardy was a runing together all_the_time and he though he wod gust quit having any thing mor to doo with you for he thought it was no_more yuse. One means to help the_birds occurs to me: Let the chimes that ring over Washington_Square twice daily, discontinue any piece_of_music but one. If we stop thinking in_terms_of tremendous multimegaton nuclear_weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear_weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear_weapons. I have found, time_and_again, that some bit of particularly annoying and intractable behavior on the part of a patient rests,, on this basis; and only when I can acknowledge this, to myself, as being indeed an aspect of my personality, does it cease to be a prominently troublesome aspect of the patient 's behavior. At the end of the program, indeed, there was a demonstration that lasted for forty-five minutes, and nothing could stop it. He must, in_short, cease to be a detective and become a rebel. These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin`` full communism'' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an`` immediate and tangible reality''. This tax was discontinued in 1936. Who stops to think_of that? Consider it as a standby setup, at negligible cost, for those emergencies when the furnace quits, a blizzard holds_up fuel delivery, or for cool summer mornings or evenings when you do n't want to start_up your whole heating plant. Someone clapped tentatively then quickly stopped. `` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John_Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter_Van_Schaack''. When, in late afternoon on the last_day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to_the_south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle. Twenty minutes after the interruption, although it was still raining, the play was resumed at the point in the fourth act where it had been stopped. Considering the high cost of the F-108 system- over$ 4 billion for the force that had been planned- and the time_period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project. These conditions man did not keep, and thus he became mortal; yet he did not stop being human as a result. He did even bother to wipe himself off and he chopped part of Pa 's door down before he stopped. The guttural language from the ghetto stopped. Either a nervous dog because you are livid with rage- a sure sign that you are taking things too seriously and stop! He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said,`` I understand that, but I do n't savvy why you 'd go_off and leave your jobs in_the_first_place''. His grades had gone steadily downhill, and he had stopped bringing friends and classmates home from school. The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort_of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor_Bo ^ o ^ k again,`` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life. Then later I had quit my safe, secure five-a-week spot on a network soap_opera to take a part in_this play. But He set a bound to his[ state of] sin, by interposing death, and thus causing sin to cease, putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh, which should take_place in the earth, so_that man, ceasing at_length to live in sin, and dying to it, might live to God''. She stopped flying into rages and started digesting her food; she developed a peaches and cream complexion and a sunny disposition, and she asked for nothing more of life than that she be kept dry and comfortable and fed huge amounts of food at stated intervals and be carried to where she could watch activity going_on around her. But then, Mario_Lanza was no common singer, and his whole career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind_of unconventional happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first`` recital'' only when he has ceased to be a living voice. `` For_one_thing you can stop keeping that child in starched dresses and changed from the skin out nineteen times a day''. And now Mr._Hodges has pioneered further into the economic unknown with the announcement that he thinks business has stopped sliding and that it should start going upward from this point. Now Eileen really would have_to settle_down to love honor and obey, and she 'd have_to quit drinking. Unsinkable slowed and stopped, hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black, the air_raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek, the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered- and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari. The boy had, apparently- if Mrs._MacReady was right in what she had told Mullins- only in recent months been forced to give_up college, to work as a busboy. `` Stop it, will you? As a result, ever since 1851 when the Senate restaurant opened in the new wing of the Capitol_Building, the senators have never ceased to grumble about the food- even while they opposed every move that might improve it. Discontinue medication 48 hours before slaughter. Blistered for curbs and laid_off three weeks, he is coming_along fine and looks_like a pacer to me.