Catches
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both words in one sentence
- In Dumbing of Age, Amber, in her vigilante identity as Amazi-Girl catches someone vandalising a street sign and orders him to stop.
Source: Reality Ensues / Web Comics - Most of the town catches on too, as the military tries to enforce a curfew, but so quickly after the missiles stop that there's no way they should have known the attack was over.
Source: Literature / Santa Olivia -
In one Inuit version the human husband catches up to his runaway fox wife when they stop for a night in the home of some married couple.
Source: Shapeshifting Squick
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