Synonyms for estop

Grammar : Verb

Spell : e-stop

Phonetic Transcription : ɛˈstɒp

Définition of estop

Origin : 1530s, from Anglo-French estopper "to stop, bar, hinder" (especially in a legal sense, by one's own prior act or declaration), from Old French estoper "plug, stop up, block; prevent, halt" (also in obscene usage), from estope "tow, oakum," from Latin stuppa "tow" (used as a plug); see stop (v.).

verb impede

Example sentences :

All these inhibitory influences which generally produce negation do not estop Mr. Hughes.
Extract from : « Behind the Mirrors » by Clinton W. Gilbert

This alone, it would seem, ought to estop him from a new trial.
Extract from : « The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 » by Jane Milliken Napier Brodhead

But—but how can a stroke of the pen, a mere gesture, estop a whole class of American citizens forever?
Extract from : « Birthright » by T.S. Stribling

Such was alien to his kindly nature; and if it had not been, there were other causes to estop him from any such indulgence.
Extract from : « The Memories of Fifty Years » by William H. Sparks

By publishing his new libel, you estop yourself from denying me this freedom.
Extract from : « A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University » by Francis Ellingwood Abbot

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