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Verbs (6)

discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off

v. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"

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Fuzzynyms (16)

stop, halt

v. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"

stop

v. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"

hold on, stop

v. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"

end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

stop, halt, block, kibosh

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

bail

v. remove (water) from a vessel with a container

concede

v. acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose"

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Antonyms (6)

preserve

v. keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing; "preserve the forest and the lakes"

prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

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