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Halt   /hɔlt/   Listen
Halt

noun
1.
The state of inactivity following an interruption.  Synonyms: arrest, check, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage.  "Held them in check" , "During the halt he got some lunch" , "The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow" , "He spent the entire stop in his seat"
2.
The event of something ending.  Synonym: stop.
3.
An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement.  Synonym: freeze.  "A nuclear freeze"
verb
1.
Cause to stop.  Synonyms: arrest, hold.  "Arrest the progress" , "Halt the presses"
2.
Come to a halt, stop moving.  Synonym: stop.  "She stopped in front of a store window"
3.
Stop from happening or developing.  Synonyms: block, kibosh, stop.  "Halt the process"
4.
Stop the flow of a liquid.  Synonyms: stanch, staunch, stem.  "Stem the tide"
adjective
1.
Disabled in the feet or legs.  Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halting, lame.  "A game leg"



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"Halt" Quotes from Famous Books



... the whole time. There was even some slight apprehension in them at the sight of that swift, voiceless approach. Jeff came to a halt before him, and it was the ranch hand who ...
— The Forfeit • Ridgwell Cullum
... Van Systens and his nosegay, then the corporation, then followed a cheer for the people; and, at last, and for once with great justice, there was one for the excellent music with which the gentlemen of the town councils generously treated the assemblage at every halt. ...
— The Black Tulip • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... "Halt! Stop a moment!" I said to myself, when I reached the woods. God in Heaven, but there must be an end of this! I felt all hot within on a sudden, and I groaned. Alas, I had no longer any pride in my heart; I had enjoyed Edwarda's favour for a week, at the outside, ...
— Pan • Knut Hamsun
... we can no longer ask British statesmen, "How long halt ye between two opinions?" That the plan adopted by the Government is the better of the two at present mooted I shall endeavour to show. In the first place, it is a mere accident that Trinity College ...
— Ireland and the Home Rule Movement • Michael F. J. McDonnell
... capable of transference from the object to the subject. That is to say that the fetichist may show a tendency to cultivate his fetich in his own person. A foot-fetichist may like to go barefoot himself; a man who admired lame women liked to halt himself; a man who was attracted by small waists in women found sexual gratification in tight-lacing himself; a man who was fascinated by fine white skin and wished to cut it found satisfaction in cutting his own skin; Moll's coprolagnic ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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