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
See halt in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee halt in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishstop/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.
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