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Halting   /hˈɔltɪŋ/   Listen
Halting

adjective
1.
Disabled in the feet or legs.  Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, lame.  "A game leg"
2.
Fragmentary or halting from emotional strain.


Halt

verb
1.
Cause to stop.  Synonyms: arrest, hold.  "Arrest the progress" , "Halt the presses"
2.
Come to a halt, stop moving.  Synonym: stop.  "She stopped in front of a store window"
3.
Stop from happening or developing.  Synonyms: block, kibosh, stop.  "Halt the process"
4.
Stop the flow of a liquid.  Synonyms: stanch, staunch, stem.  "Stem the tide"



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"Halting" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'Jordan's stormy banks,'" Mr. Roberts said, at last, halting beside the grassy bank. "I suppose there was never a more perfect geographical ...
— Four Girls at Chautauqua • Pansy
... place where I was halting now the line of a jagged cliff seemed to cut the air, and fend off the light from its edges. You can only see such a thing from the level of the sea, and it looks very odd when you see it, as if ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... what they did do. Frank anticipated their action as they suddenly moved toward him. He was as cool as a cucumber, and halting hailed them with a ...
— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster
... the elder woman's sneer dulled the edge of Claire's anticipations, but presently the man began to speak, and at once she felt a sense of power back of his halting words, a sudden bursting fort of bloom amid the frozen assembly that sat ice-bound, refusing to be melted by the fires of an alien enthusiasm. She could not help wondering whether he felt how hopeless it would be to force a sympathetic response from his audience. In ordinary times the Second ...
— The Blood Red Dawn • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... that everything had been done just as she would have liked to have it. To-day the house was free of the grieving, sickening smell of flowers; the last of the people had mercifully fulfilled their duty to Ida and him and had gone, leaving him the humiliation of their honest, warm-hearted words and halting ...
— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various


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