All halt synonyms
halt
H h verb halt
- close down — to cease or cause to cease operations
- come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
- cool it — If you tell someone to cool it, you want them to stop being angry and aggressive and to behave more calmly.
- shilly-shally — to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
- whiffle — to blow in light or shifting gusts or puffs, as the wind; veer or toss about irregularly.
noun halt
- close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- standstill — a state of cessation of movement or action; halt; stop: The ball rolled to a standstill.
- break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- termination — the act of terminating.
- end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- cutoff — A cutoff or a cutoff point is the level or limit at which you decide that something should stop happening.
- freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- interruption — an act or instance of interrupting.
- layoff — the act of dismissing employees, especially temporarily.
- letup — cessation; pause; relief.
- impasse — a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock.
- stand — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.