Stop and Take flight

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

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Take flight is an antonym for stop.

Nearby Words: stopped, stopper, stopping, stopover

Take flight verb - Run away quickly.

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Stop is an antonym for take flight in topics: advance, escape, move fast on foot, run quickly away.

This also ties in to Sasuke's earlier mention of the story of a snake that sought to fly by raising a baby bird, only to get eaten instead, as well as Tobi suggesting that Sasuke would one day stop being a snake and take flight as a hawk.

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