Why this word is great
FORSTOP — [Verb] To stop up, block, clog, or obstruct completely, especially in the context of stifling breath or damming a watercourse. From Middle English forstoppen, from Old English forstoppian ("to stop up, close"), equivalent to for- (intensive prefix) + stop ("to block"). Cognate with Dutch verstoppen ("to clog, obstruct") and German verstopfen ("to plug, stop up"). Unlike "hinder" (which implies a slowing, a grudging allowance) or "suppress" (which smothers voices or flames), forstop is the absolute negation of passage: a hand clamped over a mouth, a river choked with silt, a drain sealed by the slow accretion of grime—the moment when flow ceases, and stillness becomes irrevocable. It is the quiet violence of suffocation, the mute protest of a blocked pipe, the way time itself seems to forstop in the instant before drowning. Some stoppages cannot be undone.