stoppingly
advEtymology From stopping + -ly.
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In compounds In a way that causes something to stop.
- a heart-stoppingly beautiful man
- Over a dirty hemp tunic he'd thrown a jerkin of goat's pelt in the manner of goatherds, two splints on the ankles were tied blood-stoppingly fast with leather thongs.2000, Eva Bourke, Travels with Gandolpho, page 38:
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- Neither of them detracted from how traffic-stoppingly handsome he was, but they were enough to inspire questions and the ensuing jokes about how she'd beaten him up.2011, Victoria Pade, It Takes a Family:
- Related terms
- heart-stoppingly, show-stoppingly