stoppered
- adjective
- /ˈstɑːpərd/
:
taponado
- He ran his arm up in the hole and drew out a stoppered brown bottle.
Examples
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"She held up a small, stoppered flask.
Fiction book (1993) -
Inside a stoppered bottle, I placed twelve newborn titmice exactly at sunset, recording how they shuddered and twisted from lack of sufficient aether before submitting to fate.
Fiction book (1991) -
Chaucer does not say, the Clerk of Oxford does not say, that she was strangling them, but there is fear in his words, and in the power of her grip, all her stoppered and stunted energy forcing all three into unconsciousness, unknowing, absence from the finale so splendidly brought about by their lord and master.
Fiction book (1994) -
She poured the liquid from the stoppered bottle into a small glass.
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The scientist sealed the stoppered container to prevent contamination.
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They found a stoppered jar buried in the backyard, filled with old coins.
Synonyms
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3.9
A thing that is closed with a cork, usually a bottle
Closed and covered to stop water or air getting in
Covered on the top by something like a cap
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word stoppered comes from the simple verb stop and the ending -er, so a stopper is literally 'a thing that stops' an opening. So a stoppered bottle is one 'closed' with a stopper to keep its contents fresh.