Commenced
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both words in one sentence
- In 1739, Walpole abandoned all efforts to stop the conflict, and commenced the War Of Jenkins Ear (so called because Robert Jenkins, an English mariner, claimed that a Spaniard inspecting his vessel had severed his ear).
Source: Useful Notes / Robert Walpole
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