Halt Definition

hôlt
halted, halting, halts
noun
halts
A stop, esp. a temporary one, as in marching; pause or discontinuance.
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A command to stop.
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Lameness.
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A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

The contract negotiations put a halt to operations.
Wiktionary
A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works.
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verb
halted, halting, halts
To come or bring to a halt; stop, esp. temporarily.
Webster's New World
To cause to stop.
The government hopes to halt tax fraud.
American Heritage
To walk with a crippled gait; limp; hobble.
Webster's New World
To stop; pause.
The hikers halted for lunch and some rest.
American Heritage
To be uncertain; waver; hesitate.
To halt in one's speech.
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adjective
Limping; crippled; lame.
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idiom
call a halt
  • to order a stop, esp. temporarily
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the halt
  • those crippled by an injured or deformed leg or foot
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Other Word Forms of Halt

Noun

Singular:
halt
Plural:
halts

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Halt

Origin of Halt

  • Old English haltian (“to be lame”), from Proto-Germanic *haltaz. English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun.

    From Wiktionary

  • Old English healt (verb healtian), from Proto-Germanic *haltaz. Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.

    From Wiktionary

  • German sing. imperative of halten to stop from Middle High German from Old High German haltan

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English halten to limp from Old English healtian

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French halte, from German Halt

    From Wiktionary

Halt Sentence Examples

  • The car came to a halt and then started to roll forward.

  • The laughter gurgled to a halt in her throat.

  • She skidded to a halt, chest heaving.

  • As the truck came to a halt in front of the house, she stared up at it in awe.

  • Alex had seen to all of that before she called a halt to the work.

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Words Starting With

HHAHAL

Words Ending With

TLTALT

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