Blocking
Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Even blocking the attack will cut off the effect.
Source: Invisibility With Drawbacks - Kars then proceeds to cut off one of Joseph's hands and decides to kill him using the Ripple to invoke Ironic Death, but Joseph ends up blocking it with the Red Stone of Aja, triggering the volcano to erupt, sending both of them on a rock high into the sky.
Source: Unintentional Backup Plan -
He gets to drive Furiosa's War Rig twice post HeelFace Turn — once to get it out of the swamp, the other to make a Heroic Sacrifice by crashing it and blocking the path in the canyon so as to cut off the convoy's pursuit.
Source: Film / Mad Max: Fury Road
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