【stop的过去式是什么意思】Stopped is the past tense of the verb stop, which means to bring to a halt, cease, interrupt, or end. The past tense, also known as the past tense is a grammatical form in English that indicates an action or state that happened in the past. Regular verbs in the past tense are usually formed by adding -ed to the base form of the verb, while irregular verbs have different forms.