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stillingverbpresent participle of still to bring (something) to a standstillit seemed as though nothing could still the fighting arresting, bringing up, catching, checking, drawing up, fetching up, halting, holding up, pulling up, stalling, staying, stopping baffling, balking, blockading, blocking, bottlenecking, clogging, damming, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, obstructing, snagging, stemmingconcluding, cutting off, ending, terminatingcalling, discontinuing, suspendingchoking off, reining (in), repressing, squashing, squelching, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning back carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping (on), keeping up, persisting, running onadvancing, faring, going along, marching, moving, proceeding, progressing, wendingactuating, budging, driving, goading, impelling, propelling, pushing, spurring, stirring to free from distress or disturbancereading a book helps me to relax and still my mind before going to bed becalming, calming, composing, lullabying, lulling, quietening(chiefly British), quieting, salving, settling, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) appeasing, conciliating, hushing, mollifying, pacifying, placatingallaying, alleviating, assuaging, easing, laying, mitigating, quelling, relaxing, relieving, solacingnarcotizing, sedating, stupefying agitating, discomposing, disquieting, disturbing, keying (up), perturbing, upsetting, vexing aggravating, heightening, intensifyingarousing, exciting, fomenting, inciting, rousing, stirring (up), working up to stop the noise or speech ofthe conversation was abruptly stilled by a loud crash from the next room dumbing, extinguishing, hushing, muting, quelling, quietening(chiefly British), quieting, settling, shushing, shutting up, silencing, squelching agitating, stirring |