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halt English

Meaning halt meaning

What does halt mean?
Definitions in simple English

halt Verb

— When someone halts something, they make it stop. The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week. — When something halts, it stops. I spilled my drink when the train suddenly halted.

halt

— verb (= arrest) cause to stop Halt the engines Arrest the progress halt the presses — verb (= stop) come to a halt, stop moving the car stopped She stopped in front of a store window — verb (= stop, block) stop from happening or developing Block his election Halt the process — noun (= freeze) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement a halt in the arms race a nuclear freeze — noun (= stop) the event of something ending it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill — noun (= arrest, check, stay, stop) the state of inactivity following an interruption the negotiations were in arrest 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 — adjective (= crippled, game) disabled in the feet or legs a crippled soldier a game leg — verb (= stem, staunch) stop the flow of a liquid staunch the blood flow stem the tide

Synonyms halt synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as halt?

halt English » English

stop cease pause stay stoppage arrest stand end discontinue suspension staunch standstill rest lame block impede hinder stopping limp interruption halting delay check cessation suspend stand up stall quit obstruct hold come to a halt stem stand still stanch prevent hobble hesitate finish detain crippled break abate wait terminate stop moving restrain quell pull up prorogue lift

Topics halt topics

What do people use halt to talk about?
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Stop something
Physical actions Move Not moving

Stop moving

Conjugation halt conjugation

How do you conjugate halt?

halt · verb

Examples halt examples

How do I use halt in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Then, the train screeched to a halt.
The blue sports car came to a screeching halt.
Do not open the door before the train comes to a halt.
Halt! Stay right where you are or I'll shoot!
Halt! You are not allowed to park here!
The snow brought public transport to a halt.
Tom stomped on the brake pedal and screeched to a halt.
At the ethics committee, a temporary halt to cloning experiments was decided.
Halt! Who goes there!

Movie subtitles

Halt! Out of my way!
Detail, halt!
Detachment, halt!
Men. halt!
Detachment. halt!
Company. halt!
We demand a halt.
Furthermore, I order our army to halt offensive.
Halt, young man! - For what?
Halt, stop him!
Halt!
You've been running all night. In the daytime you shall stand and sustain their blow, halt the German wedge and hold fast until we crush them from the flanks.
Give the order to halt, Sergeant. -Company, halt!
Yet, after a year and a halt he had not made much progress and then he did something wrong and the entire receiver caught fire.
Saidi, halt them.
Prisoner and escort, halt.
Troop, halt!
We can halt over there while you take a look around.
Company halt.
Halt or I'll shoot!
You stop and buy out a candy store - Halt!
Detail halt!
Should the woman, however, care to halt the relationship. and marry someone else, she's entitled to do so.
Halt! You know you're forbidden to cross.
Countess, halt!
I could put a halt to you forever! I must refuse.
What?! I don't want my train held up every time some dirty little halt changes staff.
Halt. remove the barricade. Dudelman.

News and current affairs

Turkey has been given what looks like an ultimatum from the EU Commission: open your ports for ships from Cyprus within a month, or you may risk a halt to the EU accession talks now underway.
They stopped the decline in the spring and early summer of this year, bringing the recession to what one hopes is more than a temporary halt.
So long as the commitment to the exchange rate system remained credible, so was the commitment to halt inflation.
That such an approach would have to include a total halt to Israeli settlement activities goes without saying.
The only question is whether political tensions could bring the music screeching to a halt.
Instead, it must now prompt North Korea to halt its nuclear development activities and return to the six-party talks with America, Japan, China, Russia, and South Korea that broke up weeks ago.
It is in China's vital national interest to halt North Korea's quest to become another declared nuclear power.
The EU is putting together an energy and environment strategy that aims to end the self-defeating competition within Europe for oil and gas, while also establishing Europe as global leader in the effort to halt climate change.
The talks ground to a halt in June 2004, when the North Koreans pulled out, citing the allegedly hostile policies of the US and Japanese governments.
Policy making, I am sure, would suddenly halt.
Economic performance has been horrible for two decades; the system is grinding to a halt. The stock market, rightly looking ahead, already sees prospects for change.
Only bold policies can halt Europe's slide toward secular stagnation and nationalist populism.
Consider Africa, where the African Union is taking a leading role in resolving conflicts on the continent and is increasingly determined to intervene to halt aggression and assure fair play for African minorities.
That step-by-step approach ground to a halt with the defeat of the European Constitution.
Thein Sein's decision to halt the project is clearly an important policy shift.
But the expansion came to a shuddering halt in 2008, the first year in decades in which aggregate financial assets fell, and there is still little sign of a sustained recovery.
I have personally talked with more than 50 foreign leaders, and we all agree that only by coordinating our actions can we stop the devastation in West Africa and halt Ebola's spread.
One or several tipping points would most likely bring the process to a screeching halt.
During the fighting in Gaza, he publicly demanded a halt to the warfare and requested that Israel open Gaza's borders to relief aid.
The sector went into long decline thereafter, as a combination of adverse policies and civil war from 1982-1992 brought new tree plantings to a halt.
The new government's effort to share power with political forces in Myanmar's volatile regions, and thus weaken local warlords, clearly contributed to the decision to halt construction.
All that time, he faced consistent political pressure to determine a positive inflation target that would halt the country's deflationary spiral.
We agonize about the failure to halt the atrocities being committed almost daily in Syria.
It was French President Nicolas Sarkozy who, in the run-up to the last EU summit, called a halt to Merkel's attempt to introduce an automatic response to member states that violate the stability criteria.
However, central government authorities have done little to halt intimidation of Linyi's villagers.

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