Allowing for
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Allowing for is an antonym for stop.
Both terms in one sentence
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Though it wouldn't stop a blade or arrow, rather than being cut it would stretch and be pushed into the wound allowing for easier extraction of arrowheads which would otherwise require (probably fatal) surgery or result in (also probably fatal) infections.
Source: Bullet Proof Vest
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Stop and Allowing for. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/allowing_for/stop
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