Develop and Stop

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Develop verb - To gradually become clearer or more detailed.

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Stop is an antonym for develop in topics: cultivate, begin, expand, unfold.

Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.

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Develop is an antonym for stop.

Nearby Words: stopped, stopper, stopping, stopover

plot	develop plot	stop plot
series	develop series	stop series
bomb	develop bomb	stop bomb
plan	develop plan	stop plan
Other words: characters, game, weapon, virus.

On Being Human vampires who stop drinking blood try to develop daily patterns and routines so they can stop themselves from constantly thinking about blood and killing.

Source: Super OCD
They set off to stop him...just as Mina begins to develop the same symptoms that Lucy had before she died.All along the way, Hilarity Ensues (literally, in this case).

Source: Film / Dracula: Dead and Loving It
The only way to stop them, short of manually destroying them with other ships, is to either develop a computer virus that wipes them all out or a different virus that enslaves them.

Source: Turned Against Their Masters

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