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| to voluntarily cease an attempt to reach a certain point (wiktionary.org) | |||
to come to a stop before reaching a certain point (Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but thankfully stopped short of the railway and the 1,500V overhead wires.  wiktionary.org) | |||