halting meaning

Adjective: halting  holting

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"

Verb: halt  holt

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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1. with halting steps i paced the streets.
2. he moderates his assent with the halting affirmative.
3. they travelled in the night, halting an hour or two after daybreak, and lying by until the twilight fell.
4. this indicates that simple automatic-sprinkler systems installed in homes could be of great benefit in halting fire.
5. he slipped stealthily down the narrow stair, his hair rising and his pulses halting at the slightest creak.