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Definition of "estop" [es•top]

  • Law To impede or prohibit by estoppel. (verb-transitive)
  • Archaic To stop up. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "estop" in a sentence
  • "I realized then at its urging that I must rise to fill an urgent void, that I must again estop the dike, that again I must needs for the good of this community stretch myself as a coat to cover the puddle, that Charlottesville might cross unsoiled."
  • "Might there be efforts to elect Democrats in November, place an referendum on the ballot, or estop implementation of the Arizona law before travel bans and cancelled contracts?"
  • "Since the left is not as afraid of the right as it should be, it leads to a political estop beyond which the left is reluctant to go, the geopolitical analogue of the Korean 38th parallel."
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