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stoppage has 10 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
“we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe”
the act of stopping something
“the third baseman made some remarkable stops”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for stoppage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.