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n. A suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one: The car rolled to a halt when it stalled.

v. To cause to stop: The government hopes to halt tax fraud.

verb-intransitive. To stop; pause: The hikers halted for lunch and some rest. See Synonyms at stop.

verb-intransitive. To proceed or act with uncertainty or indecision; waver.

verb-intransitive. To be defective or proceed poorly, as in the development of an argument in logic or in the rhythmic structure of verse.

verb-intransitive. To limp or hobble.

adj. Archaic Lame; crippled.

adj. Lame, limping.

v. To limp.

v. To waver.

v. To falter.

n. Lameness; a limp.

v. To stop marching.

v. To stop either temporarily or permanently.

v. To bring to a stop.

v. To cause to discontinue.

n. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

n. A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.

3d pers. sing. pres. of hold, contraction for holdeth.

n. A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.

verb-intransitive. To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.

verb-intransitive. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.

v. To cause to cease marching; to stop.

adj. Halting or stopping in walking; lame.

n. The act of limping; lameness.

verb-intransitive. To walk lamely; to limp.

verb-intransitive. To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.

Lame; not able to walk without limping.

To limp; move with a limping gait.

To stand in doubt; hesitate; linger; delay.

To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection of ideas, or in measure or versification: as, a halting metaphor; a halting sonnet.

n. The act of limping; lameness; a defect in gait.

n. A disease in sheep.

n. A stop; a suspension of progress in walking, riding, or going in any manner, and especially in marching.

To stop in walking or going; cease to advance; stop for a longer or shorter time on a march, as a body of troops.

To bring to a stand; cause to cease marching: as, the general halted his troops.

A Middle English contraction of haldeth, equivalent to holdeth, third person singular of the present indicative of hold.

v. stop the flow of a liquid

v. come to a halt, stop moving

n. the state of inactivity following an interruption

v. stop from happening or developing

n. an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement

v. cause to stop

adj. disabled in the feet or legs

n. the event of something ending

"Having the sun and moon halt is extraordinarily uncommon."

unfit   

halted    halting    halts   

check    pause    stop   

hold   

rein    haul up    stall    check    go off    conk    pull up    pull up short    rein in    draw up   

haltement   

hesitate    stop    lame    lameness    limp    disabled   

Perrault    Renault    Walt    assault    basalt    default    exalt    fault    galt    gault   

stop    pause    interruption    gasp    shake    retreat    footstep    jerk    withdrawal    trot