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What is the adjective for stop?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs stop and stopple which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

stopped
  1. (of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle.
  2. (more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped.
  3. (of a pipe) Having a stop; being closed at one end.
  4. (of a plant) In a well-pruned state.
  5. (phonetics) Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b, d, p, and t.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “If there is a known threat associated with the vehicle being stopped, the police vehicle should be positioned behind the stopped vehicle in such a way as to isolate the suspected vehicle.”
      “She then hit two other cars, leaving traffic entirely stopped and congested in both directions.”
      “The wireless adapter on my laptop is stopped and not working.”
stoppable
  1. Capable of being stopped.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “That is why some say that Mr. Stewart is the toughest and least stoppable fullback in the oil field.”
      “It is capable of launching attacks which will not always be stoppable whatever precautions are taken.”
      “I would really hate to see all that focus and support be wiped out by something I see as being stoppable.”
stopless
  1. Not to be stopped.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Trainees should learn to use a variety of instruments but should find a stopless ruler the easiest.”
      “Linklater, as always, proves himself a master of the lengthy falling-away tracking shot, with the characters, in the stopless present, walking toward us as they talk.”
      “One like the other, being civils servant sons, has much travelled and lived in the provinces with their parents by the fact of these stopless appoitements undergone by those executives administration.”
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