Plant
Plant verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.
Usage example: soon the sect had planted churches across the breadth of the colony
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
How words are described
| old | old plant | old stop |
| full | full plant | full stop |
| complete | complete plant | complete stop |
| dead | dead plant | dead stop |
| Other adjectives: single, small, entire, big, little, main, major, abandoned, last, talking, nearby, giant, red. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "This Side of Paradise", the ship's crew falls under the influence of spores from an alien plant and stop caring about their duties and responsibilities.
Source: Insulted Awake - The only way to manually stop moving is to plant a tree in his path, forcing him to stop and hack away at it for a while.
Source: Video Game / Candy box! -
Deconstructed, as Seymour refuses to stop feeding the plant because he fears Audrey would stop caring about him if he was broke again which leads to their deaths.
Source: Theatre / Little Shop of Horrors
Cite this Source
Stop and Plant. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plant/stop
Plant & Stop. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/plant/stop>.
Stop or Plant. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plant/stop.
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