1. Disabled in the feet or legs
   - crippled, halt [archaic], lame, gimpy [N. Amer], game 
2. Fragmentary or halting from emotional strain
   "uttered a few halting words of sorrow"

1. Cause to stop
   "Halt the engines"; "halt the presses"
   - hold, arrest 
2. Come to a halt, stop moving
   - stop 
3. Stop from happening or developing
   "Halt the process"
   - stop, block, kibosh 
4. Stop the flow of a liquid
   - stem, stanch [N. Amer], staunch

See also: broken, unfit

Type of: check, forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, stop

Encyclopedia: Halt

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