Read full poem →Thou knowest the Pope has sent here into Spain
To put a stop to dances on the stage.
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To terminate or abolish something.
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Poetry examples for “put a stop to”
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Read full poem →This work he did not live to finish; his diseases, a slow consumption
and an asthma, put a stop to his studies, and on Feb. 15, 1708, at the
beginning of his thirty-third year, put an end to his life.