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Lin

To yield to stop to cease

Nicotine

the controlled administration of nicotine on various forms has been used as a technique for assisting efforts to stop the smoking habit

nonstop

without an intermediate stop of trips in public conveyances especially of a flight

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Plug

Any piece of wood metal or other substance used to stop or fill a hole a stopple

Preclude

To put a barrier before hence to shut out to hinder to stop to impede

Repose

To cause to stop or to rest after motion hence to deposit to lay down to lodge to reposit

Sist

To stay as judicial proceedings to delay or suspend to stop

Caveat

Caveat (let him take heed), a warning or caution. If a person desired to stop the enrolment for decree in Chancery, in order to present a petition of appeal to the Lord Chancellor,

Embargo

Embargo [fr. embargar, Sp.], a prohibition to pass; a stop, arrest, or detention of ships; a prohibition imposed in time of war by a belligerent state upon merchant

Equity

(see that title) of a contract where law would only give damages for the breach of it, and stop a wrong by injunction (see that title) where law would only give damages for the commission of it.

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