Hang up
Hang up verb - Cause to be hanging or suspended.
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Customer service representatives are usually not allowed to hang up before the customer does, but in order to stop this kind of thing from happening, they are allowed to hang up if the customer obviously has no other issues concerning the product being serviced.
Source: No, You Hang Up First - There were at least two Bronze Age stories in which criminals tricked Superman into believing he had accidentally killed someone, so that he would hang up his cape and stop fighting crime (in one, they tricked him into thinking he had accidentally killed Lana Lang!).
Source: Thou Shalt Not Kill -
This is particularly relevant when they refuse to stop the match and allow the Market to get Athena out of the robot and Achilles in it as "the identity of the pilot is not our responsibility", and when the Market Commissioner protests, they repeat the ruling and hang up on him.
Source: Film / Robot Jox
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