halt
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(verb) cause to stop or halt; "Halt the engine" |
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Related Words: cease, end, terminate |
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(verb) cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses" |
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Synonyms: arrest, hold |
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Related Words: stop |
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(noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement: "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" |
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Synonyms: freeze |
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Related Words: pause |
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(satellite adjective) disabled in the feet or legs |
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Synonyms: crippled, halting, lame |
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(verb) come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" |
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Synonyms: stop |
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Related Words: brake, check, conk, draw up, go off, halt, haul up, pull up, rein, rein in, settle, stall |
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(verb) come to rest |
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Synonyms: settle |
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Related Words: halt, stop |
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(verb) stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" |
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Synonyms: block, kibosh, stop |
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Related Words: embargo, forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, stay |
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(noun) the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" |
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Synonyms: stop |
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Related Words: cessation, conclusion, ending, stand, standstill, surcease, tie-up |
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(noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "he spent the entire stay in his room" |
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Synonyms: arrest, check, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
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Related Words: deadlock, impasse, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, logjam, stalemate, standstill |
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(verb) as of the flow of a liquid flowing, such as blood from a wound |
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Synonyms: stanch, staunch, stem |
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Related Words: check |
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