Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Veil
Veil verb - To keep secret or shut off from view.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Played more straight (if hidden behind a thin veil of metaphor about witchcraft) in an earlier episode where Tara's father vows to stop her living "God knows what kind of lifestyle."
Source: Cure Your Gays -
Not to mention when Darken Rahl destroys the Boxes of Orden in an attempt to stop Richard from using them and inadvertently tears the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead.
Source: Series / Legend of the Seeker -
Unusually for this trope, Tenaya 7 stands on her skirt to try and stop her but Summer resorts to using the veil as a weapon too.
Source: Kicking Ass in All Her Finery
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Veil and Stop. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/stop/veil
Stop & Veil. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/stop/veil>.
Veil or Stop. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/stop/veil.
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