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stopped up

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There are curtained cubicles for seeing the doctor, dimly lit halls, a smell of stopped-up toilets.

In December someone broke into a foreclosed townhome, stopped up a toilet and started the water running.

When the roots get inside of the pipe they grow until the pipe is stopped up.

After some years she induced her husband to open the holes he had stopped up; and the next morning she had disappeared.

The next day the same thing happened again, and the Red men even stopped up the entrances to many of the houses with round stones.

So that's how the first three eggs were taken, but no more were, for Papa Wibblewobble stopped up the rat hole.

So inimically disposed were these monks that they stopped up the channel we drew our water from.

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On this page you'll find 265 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stop up, such as: arrest, bar, blockade, clog, close, and close off.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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