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END-STOPPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does end-stopped mean?
• END-STOPPED (adjective)
The adjective END-STOPPED has 1 sense:
1. (verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line
Familiarity information: END-STOPPED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line
Antonym:
run-on ((verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines)
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