Foster
Foster verb - To help the growth or development of.
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- His foster mother asks that his biological mother stop sending quite so many letters.
- Another flashback from Plutonian's early teen years showed that he heard his foster mother was about to commit suicide, and got there in a fraction of a second, intending to stop her.
Source: Reality Ensues / Comic Books - James, the father in Soda's foster home abuses his baby daughter Emma, and locks Soda in his bedroom when he tries to protect her and tells him he is wrong for trying to stop him.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Fanfiction
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Stop and Foster. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/foster/stop
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