Make way and Stop

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Make way verb - Get out of the way.

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Stop is an antonym for make way in topics: come, advance, thrust, journey on a trip or tour.

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

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Make way is an antonym for stop.

Nearby Words: stopped, stopper, stopping, stopover

Konoko: Stop it... Mukade: We writhe inside as we are torn apart to make way for what we will become.

Source: Not So Different / Video Games
A parody of a beloved action genre wherein an inexperienced young man becomes a hero in order to stop an Army of Thieves and Whores hired by a ruthless villain to depopulate a small backwater in order to make way for a lucrative transportation route.

Source: Surprisingly Similar Stories / Uncited Entries
In the series finale Mite-Fall Ambush Bug tries to stop Bat-Mite after he decides that the show should be cancelled to make way for another Darker and Edgier take and decides to use his fifth dimensional powers to make the show jump the shark in pretty much every way possible (even Ted McGinley!).

Source: Something Completely Different / Western Animation

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