To cease moving, progressing, acting, or operating; come to a halt: The clock stopped in the night. 2. To put an end to what one is doing; cease: had to stop at an exciting place in the book. The correct form is stopped. In English, when a verb ends with a single vowel followed by a single consonant, and the stress is on the final syllable, you double the consonant before adding -ed. to block, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually fol. by up): He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch. “Stopped” is the correct spelling, while “stoped” is generally a misspelling in modern English. “Stopped” is the past tense and past participle of stop, meaning to cease moving, doing, or continuing something. The word stopped is the correct past tense and past participle form of the verb stop. On the other hand, stoped is a completely different word with a specific meaning in mining terminology, and it is rarely used in everyday language. Meaning of stopped in English stopped past simple and past participle of stop (Definition of stopped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Synonyms for STOPPED: prevented, precluded, refused, excluded, rejected, suppressed, blocked, revoked; Antonyms of STOPPED: permitted, permissible, acceptable, allowable, endorsed, authorized, appropriate, approved The confusion between “stoped” and “stopped” is very common, but the rule is simple once you understand it. The correct spelling is always “stopped”, with a double “p.” Meaning of stopped in English stopped past simple and past participle of stop (Definition of stopped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) They were walking away and suddenly stopped. I stopped dead in my tracks [=stopped suddenly] when I saw the bear.