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haltnoun a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give innegotiations are at a halt, with neither management nor the union budging on the issue of salary limits deadlock, gridlock, impasse, logjam, Mexican standoff, stalemate, standoff, standstill dead endbind, bottleneck, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, jam, morass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, quagmire, quandary, spotdifficultyproblem the stopping of a process or activitygardening came to a halt during the week of solid rain arrest, arrestment, cease, cessation, check, close, closedown, closure, conclusion, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, end, ending, expiration, finish, lapse, offset, shutdown, shutoff, stay, stop, stoppage, surcease, termination mop-up, phaseoutabeyance, break, interruption, layoff, letup, moratorium, pause, standstill, suspension continuance, continuation extension, persistence, prolongation haltverb1to bring (something) to a standstilltraffic was halted by the parade arrest, bring up, catch, check, draw up, fetch up, hold up, pull up, stall, stay, still, stop baffle, balk, block, blockade, bottleneck, clog, dam, detain, hinder, hold, hold back, impede, obstruct, snag, stemconclude, cut off, end, terminatecall, discontinue, suspendchoke off, rein (in), repress, squash, squelch, stanch(or staunch), stunt, suppress, turn back carry on, continue, follow through (with), keep (on), keep up, persist, run onadvance, fare, go along, march, move, proceed, progress, wendactuate, budge, drive, goad, impel, propel, push, spur, stir to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate endthe private eye abruptly halted his surveillance of the building upon being spotted by his subject break, break off, break up, can(slang), cease, cut off, cut out, desist (from), discontinue, drop, end, give over, knock off, lay off, leave off, pack (up or in), quit, shut off, stop complete, conclude, finishclose (down)deactivateblock, blockade, dam, delay, detain, hinder, hold, hold back, impede, kibosh, obstruct, stemcall, suspendarrest, brake, check, clamp down, rein (in), squash, squelch, stamp, stanch(or staunch), stunt, suppress, turn backpause, stay, suspendabolish, abort, annul, demolish, destroy, dissolve, kill, ruin, scuttle, snuff have done with, put the kibosh on carry on, continue, follow through (with), keep up, run onadvance, proceed, progressactuate, drive, impel, propel, stir to come to an endall filming halted when the star of the movie quit in a huff break off, break up, cease, close, conclude, dead-end, determine, die, discontinue, elapse, end, expire, finish, go, lapse, leave off, let up, pass, quit, stop, terminate, wind up, wink (out) desist (from), lay off (of), refrain (from)give over(British), knock off, pack (up or in)break down, conk (out), cut out, stallpause, stay, suspendabate, peter (out), wind down bite the dust continue, hang on, persist draw out, extend, prolong, protract haltverb2to walk while favoring one legeven with her twisted ankle, she managed to halt along and complete her Walk for Peace hobble, limp hitchblunder, falter, flounder, lurch, shamble, shuffle, stagger, stumble, teeter, totter, waver, wobble(also wabble)dodder stride breeze, glide, sail to show uncertainty about the right course of actionshe was often confused, halting between the responsibilities of her job and the demands of her home life balance, dither, falter, hang back, hesitate, scruple, shilly-shally, stagger, teeter, vacillate, waver, wobble(also wabble) haw, hemdally, dawdle, delay, linger, pause, procrastinate, waitback down, chicken (out)consider, debate, deliberate, ponder, weighoscillate, swayequivocate, hedge, pussyfoot, waffle dive (in), plunge (in) decidebudge, stiradvance, continue before the 12th century |