halt
verb /hɔːlt/, /hɒlt/
/hɔːlt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they halt | /hɔːlt/, /hɒlt/ /hɔːlt/ |
| he / she / it halts | /hɔːlts/, /hɒlts/ /hɔːlts/ |
| past simple halted | /ˈhɔːltɪd/, /ˈhɒltɪd/ /ˈhɔːltɪd/ |
| past participle halted | /ˈhɔːltɪd/, /ˈhɒltɪd/ /ˈhɔːltɪd/ |
| -ing form halting | /ˈhɔːltɪŋ/, /ˈhɒltɪŋ/ /ˈhɔːltɪŋ/ |
- to stop; to make somebody/something stop
- She walked towards him and then halted.
- ‘Halt!’ the Major ordered (= used as a command to soldiers).
- halt somebody/something The police were halting traffic on the parade route.
- The trial was halted after the first week.
Extra Examples- A sudden shout made them halt in their tracks and look around.
- All these ideas for expansion were abruptly halted by the outbreak of war.
- The strike effectively halted production at the factory.
- We are failing to halt the destruction of the rainforest.
- She criticized his failure to halt the slide in the government's unpopularity.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- virtually
- effectively
- abruptly
- …
- attempt to
- try to
- threaten to
- …
- halt in your tracks
- halt something in its tracks
Word Originlate 16th cent.: originally in the phrase make halt, from German haltmachen, from halten ‘to hold’.
Idioms
stop/halt somebody in their tracks | stop/halt/freeze in your tracks
- to suddenly make somebody stop by frightening or surprising them; to suddenly stop because something has frightened or surprised you
- The question stopped Alice in her tracks.
- Suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks: what was he doing?
- (figurative) The disease was stopped in its tracks by immunization programmes.