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haltingverb1present participle of halt to bring (something) to a standstilltraffic was halted by the parade arresting, bringing up, catching, checking, drawing up, fetching up, holding up, pulling up, stalling, staying, stilling, stopping baffling, balking, blockading, blocking, bottlenecking, clogging, damming, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, obstructing, snagging, stemmingconcluding, cutting off, ending, terminatingcalling, discontinuing, suspendingchoking off, reining (in), repressing, squashing, squelching, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning back carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping (on), keeping up, persisting, running onadvancing, faring, going along, marching, moving, proceeding, progressing, wendingactuating, budging, driving, goading, impelling, propelling, pushing, spurring, stirring 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 breaking, breaking off, breaking up, canning(slang), ceasing, cutting off, cutting out, desisting (from), discontinuing, dropping, ending, giving over, knocking off, laying off, leaving off, packing (up or in), quitting, shutting off, stopping completing, concluding, finishingclosing (down)deactivatingblockading, blocking, damming, delaying, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, kiboshing, obstructing, stemmingcalling, suspendingarresting, braking, checking, clamping down, reining (in), squashing, squelching, stamping, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning backpausing, staying, suspendingabolishing, aborting, annulling, demolishing, destroying, dissolving, killing, ruining, scuttling, snuffing having done with, putting the kibosh on carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping up, running onadvancing, proceeding, progressingactuating, driving, impelling, propelling, stirring to come to an endall filming halted when the star of the movie quit in a huff breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, dead-ending, determining, discontinuing, dying, elapsing, ending, expiring, finishing, going, lapsing, leaving off, letting up, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up, winking (out) desisting (from), laying off (of), refraining (from)giving over(British), knocking off, packing (up or in)breaking down, conking (out), cutting out, stallingpausing, staying, suspendingabating, petering (out), winding down biting the dust continuing, hanging on, persisting drawing out, extending, prolonging, protracting haltingverb2present participle of haltto walk while favoring one legeven with her twisted ankle, she managed to halt along and complete her Walk for Peace hobbling, limping hitchingblundering, faltering, floundering, lurching, shambling, shuffling, staggering, stumbling, teetering, tottering, wavering, wobbling(also wabbling)doddering striding breezing, gliding, sailing 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 balancing, dithering, faltering, hanging back, hesitating, scrupling, shilly-shallying, staggering, teetering, vacillating, wavering, wobbling(also wabbling) hawing, hemmingdallying, dawdling, delaying, lingering, pausing, procrastinating, waitingbacking down, chickening (out)considering, debating, deliberating, pondering, weighingoscillating, swayingequivocating, hedging, pussyfooting, waffling diving (in), plunging (in) decidingbudging, stirringadvancing, continuing in 1585 |