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halt
verb [I or T] /hɒlt/
/hɑːlt/ Definition
› to (cause to) stop moving or doing something or happening: "Halt!" called the guard. "You can't go any further without a permit." Production has halted at all of the company's factories because of the pay dispute. Security forces halted the demonstrators by blocking the road.Causing something to endComing to an end
(Definition of halt verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- -stopper suffix
- abandon verb (STOP)
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- break away phrasal verb (NOT AGREE)
- conclude verb (FINISH)
- freeze noun (STOP)
- jack sth in phrasal verb
- kill sth stone-dead idiom
- knock off (sth) phrasal verb
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- scrap verb (THROW AWAY)
- squash verb (END)
- stamp sth out phrasal verb
- stanch verb
- staunch verb
- stem verb
- strangle sth at birth idiom
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