abend vs put a stop to

abend

verb

  • To terminate abnormally. 

noun

  • The abnormal termination of a program. 

  • Termination of a process prior to completion. 

put a stop to

verb

  • To terminate or abolish something. 

How often have the words abend and put a stop to occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )