Defuse
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Luckily, the "criminal" (she actually isn't, and was chasing the bomb owner to stop the bomb from exploding) they've been chasing the whole episode knows how to defuse it.
Source: Wire Dilemma -
In the Discworld novel Men-At-Arms, Detritus the troll tries to use a Stop Being Stereotypical speech to defuse a riot between a gang of trolls and a gang of dwarfs.
Source: Stop Being Stereotypical - The Aliens, who have their base in the vicinity, send The Beautiful Woman of the Week to defuse the device, and Steve Austin has to stop her.
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