All the traffic was brought to a standstill by the accident.
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Standstill
//ˈstændˌstɪl//
Synonyms for "standstill" (61 found)
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Translations
60 translations across 26 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- durğunluq noun (complete immobility)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безде́йствие noun (complete immobility)
- засто́й noun (complete immobility)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 停頓 /停顿 noun (complete immobility)
Danish
1 entries- stilstand noun (complete immobility)
Dutch
1 entries- stilstand noun (complete immobility)
Esperanto
1 entries- halto noun (complete immobility)
Finnish
1 entries- pysähtyminen noun (complete immobility)
French
4 entries- arrêt noun (complete immobility)
- immobilisation noun (complete immobility)
- paralysie noun (complete immobility)
- surplace noun (complete immobility)
Galician
1 entries- paralización noun (complete immobility)
Georgian
4 entries- გაჩერება noun (complete immobility)
- უმოქმედობა noun (complete immobility)
- უძრაობა noun (complete immobility)
- შეჩერება noun (complete immobility)
German
1 entries- Stillstand noun (complete immobility)
Hungarian
4 entries- bénultság noun (complete immobility)
- holtpont noun (complete immobility)
- leállás noun (complete immobility)
- megállás noun (complete immobility)
Interlingua
2 entries- immobilisation noun (complete immobility)
- paralyse noun (complete immobility)
Irish
1 entries- stad noun (complete immobility)
Italian
4 entries- arresto noun (complete immobility)
- blocco noun (complete immobility)
- fermata noun (complete immobility)
- fermo noun (complete immobility)
Japanese
2 entries- 停止 noun (complete immobility)
- 停頓 noun (complete immobility)
Latin
1 entries- immobilizatio noun (complete immobility)
Macedonian
3 entries- бе́здејство noun (complete immobility)
- безде́јствие noun (complete immobility)
- за́стој noun (complete immobility)
Māori
1 entries- whakamāraritanga noun (complete immobility)
Norwegian
1 entries- stillstand noun (complete immobility)
Polish
1 entries- zastój noun (complete immobility)
Portuguese
1 entries- paralisação noun (complete immobility)
Romanian
2 entries- imobilizat noun (complete immobility)
- oprit noun (complete immobility)
Russian
4 entries- безде́йствие noun (complete immobility)
- засто́й noun (complete immobility)
- остано́вка noun (complete immobility)
- просто́й noun (complete immobility)
Spanish
3 entries- detención noun (complete immobility)
- detenimiento noun (complete immobility)
- parada noun (complete immobility)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bế tắc noun (complete immobility)
- dừng noun (complete immobility)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
A new car came to a standstill in front of the bank.
Source: tatoeba (269179)
His experiments came to a standstill.
Source: tatoeba (286568)
His business has come to a standstill.
Source: tatoeba (299499)
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