Mothballed
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Mothballed is an antonym for stop.
Both words in one sentence
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Several of our heroes just happen to be aboard their mothballed ship when it happens, and they courageously set out to stop the disaster.
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The Password is Always "Swordfish": The code to deactivate the mothballed battleship's defense systems in the short story turns out to be "haltu" (Esperanto for "stop").
Source: Literature / Deathworld -
Harry Harrison's short story The Mothballed Spaceship has an old Imperial battleship, which the heroes need to reactivate in order to stop an attack on Earth.
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