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  • 1. standstill
  • Rhymes with Standstill
  • Standstill in a sentence
  • Quotes about Standstill
  • 2. standstill
Table of Contents
  • 1. standstill
  • Rhymes with Standstill
  • Standstill in a sentence
  • Quotes about Standstill
  • 2. standstill
Synonyms
Antonyms

1. standstill

noun. ['ˈstændˌstɪl'] a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible.

Synonyms

  • dead end
  • deadlock
  • situation
  • impasse

Antonyms

  • forbid
  • disallow
  • lie
  • sit

Rhymes with Standstill

  • rototill
  • rototill
  • stockstill
  • studstill

Sentences with standstill


1. Adjective
This is a sample of chemical equilibrium when a visible standstill state is achieved by a chemical reaction.

2. Noun, singular or mass
This is because it takes that much more power to get the compressor moving from a standstill.

Quotes about standstill


1. Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
- James Cash Penney

2. The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.
- Slavoj Žižek

2. standstill

noun. ['ˈstændˌstɪl'] an interruption of normal activity.

Synonyms

  • tie-up
  • halt
  • stop

Antonyms

  • disequilibrium
  • acceptance
  • equilibrium
  • inclusion
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