Escalating and Stop

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Stop is an antonym for escalating in increase topic.

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

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Escalating is an antonym for stop.

Nearby Words: stopped, stopper, stopping, stopover

Yet there's always someone out to start a war, leaving it to the heroes to stop hostilities from escalating.

Source: Prevent the War
The Argon later fight back with reverse-engineered Xenon ships, escalating the conflict to the point where the jumpgate network shuts down to stop them from slaughtering each other in a interstellar pogrom - and to stop the spread of the now un-contained Xenon fleets.

Source: Humans Are Warriors

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