STOP OVER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Interrupt a trip

Example:

they stopped for three days in Florence

Synonyms:

stop; stop over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "stop over" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stop over"):

call (make a stop in a harbour)

lay over; stop over (interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Meaning:

Interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight

Example:

We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil

Synonyms:

lay over; stop over

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "stop over" is one way to...):

stop; stop over (interrupt a trip)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

stopover (a brief stay in the course of a journey)