Answer to "Bring to a standstill" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ARREST , but the solution may also be STOP which is one of the most recent solution (2017 in Universal uClick).

Bring to a standstill crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
ARREST	29 %	6
STEM	29 %	4
STOPSHORT	14 %	9
STOP	14 %	4
STALEMATE	14 %	9

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bring to a standstill

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• fetch
• stalemated
• stall
• stalls
• gravel
• gravelled
• cease
• deadlock
• halt
• halted
• rest
• stalemate

Crossword Answer definitions

ARREST noun

1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
3. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
5. A device to physically arrest motion.
6. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
7. Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
8. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

ARREST verb

1. To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
2. To stay, remain.
3. To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
4. To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
5. To catch the attention of.
6. To undergo cardiac arrest.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result ARREST

• Run in
• Seize by law
• Take prisoner
• Pinch
• Put the collar on
• Catch
• Collar
• Bring into the station house
• Take in
• Bring to a standstill

More clues leading to the result STEM

• Derive from
• Bud supporter
• Flower holder
• Pipe part
• Stern's other end?
• Watch part
• Wine glass feature
• Wine glass part
• Bloom supporter
• Check

More clues leading to the result STOPSHORT

• Jam on the brakes
• Slam on the brakes
• *Jam on the brakes
• Bring to a standstill.
• Brake sharply Bowa or Yount
• Brake fast
• *Hit the brake: infielder
• *Suddenly slam on the brakes
• Abruptly fail to finish
• Halt abruptly

More clues leading to the result STOP

• "__ the music!"
• Depot
• Halt
• Octagon message
• Organ piece
• Railroad-crossing word
• Scrub a mission
• Cease movement
• Discontinue
• Glottal __

More clues leading to the result STALEMATE

• Tie for Kasparov
• Deadlock
• Bring to a standstill
• No-win situation
• Impasse
• Standoff
• Chess outcome
• Endgame result, sometimes
• Impasse.
• One of the U. N. headaches.