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单词 halt
释义 halt
I. \ˈhȯlt\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English healt; akin to Old High German halz lame, Old Norse haltr, Gothic halts lame, Latin clades destruction, disaster, Greek klan to break, kolos docked, hornless, kolobos docked, curtailed, Lithuanian kalti to beat, forge; basic meaning: beating, hewing
: having a halting walk : lame
 < gave alms to the halt and … the poor — Jean Stafford >
 < a place for everyone … old and young, hale and halt — Sir Winston Churchill >
II. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English halten, from Old English healtian; akin to Old High German halzēn to be lame, limp; derivatives from the root of English halt (I)
1. : to walk or proceed lamely : limp
 < so lamely … that dogs bark at me as I halt by them — Shakespeare >
2. : to stand in perplexity or doubt between alternate courses : waver
3. : to display weakness or imperfection (as in argument, development, or meter) : proceed raggedly or falteringly : falter, lapse
 < the translation halts now and then — British Book News >
 < the verse that halts in places >
 < the argument often halts and sometimes breaks down completely >
III. noun
(-s)
Etymology: German, from Middle High German, from halt!, imp. of halten to hold, stop, from Old High German haltan — more at hold
1. : a temporary or definitive stop in marching or walking or in any action or process : arrest of progress
 < the car came to a sudden halt >
 < economic progress was brought to a halt >
 < a halt, rather than a complete stoppage, in the flow of talent — Irish Digest >
 < time to call a halt in a useless struggle >
2. chiefly Britain : a stopping place for public transport; especially : a railway flag stop
 < a slow train stopping at every station including haltsPunch >
IV. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: German halten to hold, stop, from Old High German haltan
intransitive verb
1. : to cease marching or journeying : stop for a longer or shorter period : stand still
 < ordered his troops to halt >
 < made two or three … paces about the room, and suddenly halted — W.J.Locke >
 < many families halted and took up land in the mountain valleys — American Guide Series: Tennessee >
2. : to discontinue temporarily or permanently : terminate, end, suspend
 < hostilities halted while the generals conferred >
 < the project halted because of inadequate financial support >
transitive verb
1. : to cause to cease marching or journeying : bring to a stop
 < halted the wagon train at a small settlement >
 < halted the advance of his troops >
 < slid the bowl back down the bar and halted it before the soldier — Kay Boyle >
 < marshes that would have halted any vehicle — American Guide Series: North Carolina >
2. : to cause the discontinuance of : terminate the existence or progress of : stop, discontinue
 < did the best he could to halt the erosion — D.L.Graham >
 < consumer spending … rose and halted the decline — Dun's Review >
 < halt hostilities >
 < sought to halt corruption and increase efficiency >
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