Thesaurus:avast
English edit
Interjection edit
Sense: a call to stop or cease an activity edit
Synonyms edit
- avast! (nautical)
- cut it out!
- enough!
- give it a break!
- halt!
- have done!
- hold!
- hold fast!
- knock it off!
- leave off!
- not so fast!
- soft [⇒ thesaurus] (archaic)
- stay!
- stop [⇒ thesaurus]!
- whoa!
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “142. cessation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “avast” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.