Meaning

9 senses
  1. (intransitive, obsolete)To limp; move with a limping gait.

  2. (intransitive, obsolete)To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.

  3. (intransitive, obsolete)To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.

  4. (obsolete)To waver.

  5. (obsolete)To falter.

  6. (intransitive, obsolete)To stop marching.

    stop the flow of a liquid

  7. (intransitive, obsolete)To stop either temporarily or permanently.

    anhalten, stoppen, rasten

    класть на полкуklastʹ na polku, встать, замеретьzameretʹ

    stop from happening or developing

  8. (obsolete, transitive)To bring to a stop.

    anhalten, stoppen, stocken

    cause to come to an abrupt stop

  9. (obsolete, transitive)To cause to discontinue.

    The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week.

    anhalten, stoppen, stocken

    остана́вливатьostanávlivatʹ

Examples

77 sentences
  1. The train was brought to a sudden halt.

    Потяг миттєво зупинився.

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  2. Tom stomped on the brake pedal and screeched to a halt.

    ruТом вдавил педаль тормоза в пол и с визгом затормозил.

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  3. Tom's car screeched to a halt.

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  4. Traffic has been halted.

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  5. As the train came to a halt, all of the passengers wondered what was happening.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to stop either temporarily or permanently:
to cause something to stop:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to stop either temporarily or permanently:
to waver or be hesitant:

Origin

From Middle English halten, from Old English healtian (“to be lame, walk with a limp”), fr

From Middle English halten, from Old English healtian (“to be lame, walk with a limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *haltōn, related to *halt. English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian halte, Swedish halta.

From Middle French halt, from early modern German halt (“stop!”), imperative of halten (“to hold, to stop”). Doublet of hold (see that entry for more information).

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Forms

halts, halting, halted, halted
Base formhalt · to halt
3rd person singularhalts
Present participlehalting
Past simplehalted
Past participlehalted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhalt
he, she, ithalts

Past simpleLesson

all personshalted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave halted
he, she, ithas halted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill halt

Synonyms

17 synonyms
to stop marching:pauseB1
to cause something to stop:freezeA2
to stop:brakeB2
to cause to discontinue:break off
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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