1. (imp. & p. p.) of Stop.

2. (a.) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).

accented alveolar apical apico-alveolar apico-dental arrested articulated assimilated back backward barytone behindhand belated bilabial blocked bound broad cacuminal central cerebral checked choked choked up clogged clogged up close congested consonant consonantal constipated continuant costive delayed delayed-action dental detained dissimilated dorsal flat foul fouled front full glide glossal glottal guttural hard heavy held up high hung up in a bind in abeyance infarcted intonated jammed labial labiodental labiovelar late lateral latish lax light lingual liquid low mid monophthongal moratory muted narrow nasal nasalized never on time obstipated obstructed occlusive open overdue oxytone packed palatal palatalized pharyngeal pharyngealized phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched plugged plugged up posttonic retarded retroflex rounded semivowel slow soft sonant stopped up stressed strong stuffed stuffed up surd syllabic tardy tense thick throaty tonal tonic twangy unaccented unpunctual unready unrounded unstressed untimely velar vocalic vocoid voiced voiceless vowel vowellike weak wide