They were walking away and suddenly stopped. I stopped dead in my tracks [=stopped suddenly] when I saw the bear. STOPPED meaning: 1. past simple and past participle of stop 2. past simple and past participle of stop. Learn more. 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. Stopped or Stoped – Which is Correct? Stopped is the correct spelling. Stoped is a misspelling and should not be used in standard English. The error usually occurs because writers forget to double the final consonant when adding -ed to the short, one-syllable verb stop. 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) 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. 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.” “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. Synonyms for STOPPED: prevented, precluded, refused, excluded, rejected, suppressed, blocked, revoked; Antonyms of STOPPED: permitted, permissible, acceptable, allowable, endorsed, authorized, appropriate, approved.