come to a stop

English

Verb

come to a stop (third-person singular simple present comes to a stop, present participle coming to a stop, simple past came to a stop, past participle come to a stop)

1. To stop moving or being active; to stop.

   The TV broadcast suddenly came to a stop.

   • 2021, Ed Tarkington, The Fortunate Ones, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, page 129:

     The car came to a stop in front of the house, and the front door opened, and a little girl—My sister, I thought, as if such a thing were as rare as a white elephant—came bounding out, the dark ringlets of her hair bouncing as she descended the porch steps and stopped to stare at me.

2. To reach a point where little progress is being made; to come to an impasse; to stop.

   The renovation effort came to a juddering stop due to a lack of funding.

Translations

to stop moving — see stop

reach a point of little progress

• Italian: incagliarsi (it)

Further reading

• “come to a stop”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “come to a stop” (US) / “come to a stop” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.