| VERB | contact | stop up, plug, secure | fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug |
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| Meaning | Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "stop up the leak" | |
| Synonyms | plug, secure | |
| Entails | insert, infix, enter, introduce | put or introduce into something |
| Narrower | chink | Fill the chinks of, as with caulking |
| cork, cork up | Close a bottle with a cork | |
| stopper, stopple | Close or secure with or as if with a stopper | |
| tampon | plug with a tampon | |
| Broader | close, fill up | Fill or stop up |
| Spanish | tapar, taponar | |
| Catalan | obturar, tapar | |
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