Word Finder - halt

definition

To limp; move with a limping gait.

definition

To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.

definition

To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.

definition

To waver.

definition

To falter.

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.

They might call a halt here or we'll have to do another four miles without eating.

Our last halt was under a wild cherry tree a short distance from the house.

He brought the buggy to a halt and took her hand in his.

A halt was made at the altars and temples, where the Salii, singing a special chant, danced a war dance.

The order was given to halt and down knapsacks.

They crossed a small spring and Alex drew Ed to a halt, glancing down at the ground.

The blade came to a jolting halt against the thick clump.

Relieved, he pulled the blowing horse to a halt and grabbed Rissa by the scruff of her tunic, unceremoniously hauling her up and dumping her on the ground.

The corresponding changes in the case of the mixture Tuvw are easily understood - the first halt at U, due to the crystallization of pure B, will probably occur at a different temperature, but the second halt, due to the simultaneous crystallization of A and B, will always occur at the same temperature whatever the composition of the mixture.

The line was, however, rectified, and after a halt the final advance began.

On the morning of the 2nd of July, however, Rupert's attack on their rearguard forced them to halt and deploy on rising ground on the south edge of the moor, their position being defined on the right and left by Long Marston and Tockwith and divided from the Royalist army on the moor by a lane connecting these two villages.

As the teams came to a halt, the rasp of leather against sandy wheels assured her that the other wagons were following suit.

He drew his mount to a halt beside her and kicked one foot free of the stirrup, offering a hand up.

All he needed was a nice brick wall to halt the nagging speculation Byrne might have skipped—like a body or something equally definitive.

This halt in the cooling, due to the heat evolved in the solidification of the first crystals that form in the liquid, is called the freezingpoint of the mixture; the freezing-point can generally be observed with considerable accuracy.

During a halt on the peninsula of Pallene, Aethilla and the other captive women set fire to the ships.

While these diets may be useful, and some evidence even indicates periodic fasting and calorie restriction can halt age-related cognitive decline, the detoxification process can easily take place over a more extended period of time.

During a halt of a few days in Poland on his way back from Vienna, King Augustus had explained to him a project for partitioning the transBaltic provinces of Sweden, by which Poland should recover Livonia and annex Esthonia, Russia should obtain Ingria and Karelia, and Denmark should take possession of Holstein.

The halt at Bloemfontein was marked by the publication of proclamations, offering protection to the burghers, which, however, the invaders had not yet the power to fulfil.

After a halt of eight days at Kroonstad, the main army again moved forward, and, meeting but small resistance, marched without a halt into Johannesburg, which was occupied on the 31st of May, the Orange Free State having been formally annexed by proclamation three days earlier.

He thought of going to Wittenberg, but his first halt was at Strassburg, where Bucer and Capito received him kindly.

We are confident from our past experiences and in-house expertise that, we can halt the slide and turn things around.

A French noncommissioned officer of hussars, in crimson uniform and a shaggy cap, shouted to the approaching Balashev to halt.

At length Dron, the village Elder, entered the room and with a deep bow to Princess Mary came to a halt by the doorpost.

As always happens the men, starting cheerfully, began to halt; murmurs were heard, there was a sense of confusion, and finally a backward movement.

During this halt the escort treated the prisoners even worse than they had done at the start.

We drew to a halt outside number 11 Smith 's Green, a quaint little cottage near Bishop 's Stortford.

We have also called a halt to the relentless march of out of town retail development.

Later these people relished the thought of bringing London to a halt.

If it was to halt the remorseless rise in the number of desertions, then there is little sign it had any demonstrable effect.

Jermaine had the idea of bringing this to a halt with the screeching of brakes on his guitar.

The Serb-dominated Yugoslav Army tried to halt the secession of Slovenia by force, but failed.

Action plan objectives and targets Halt the current decline and maintain at least 50 self-sustaining populations.

Now MS seemed to have brought his life to a shuddering halt.

Repeated interruptions were accordingly experienced to the advance of the leading column, by messages to halt or slacken pace.

You slam hard on the brakes, skidding to a halt, the image of her face stuck in your mind.

Steps are being taken to halt verbal slurs made to homeless sellers of the Big Issue magazine in Bristol.

Waiting until Sam and Nige crawled to a halt behind me I strained to hear what was beyond.

Another staff member would halt work to deal with a PC crash or a stubborn refusal to access the Web.

His speech at Marburg on June 17th 1934 was a tardy attempt to halt a process, which he had helped to start.

Following the weekend 's horrific death toll in Israel, Christian Aid calls for an immediate halt to the violence by both sides.

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Always consult with your divorce lawyer before making any attempts to halt a divorce in progress.

The purposes of primrose oil is to deliver anti-inflammatory oils, called GLA, into the body so that they halt the inflammation response.

However, all those dreams came to a screeching halt because instead of working on your career, you are busier with feeling overwhelmed, bogged down by constant flow of work, and burned out.