- crippled, halt, halting, lame, game - disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"
Antonyms: fit, healthy (indirect, via unfit)
- arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage - the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
--1 is a kind of inaction, inactivity, inactiveness
--1 has particulars: countercheck; logjamDerived forms: verb halt2, verb halt1 - stop, halt - the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
--2 is a kind of ending, conclusion, finish
--2 has particulars: cessation, surcease; stand, standstill, tie-upDerived forms: verb halt4, verb halt3, verb halt2, verb halt1 - freeze, halt - an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"
--3 is a kind of pause
Derived forms: verb halt3, verb halt2, verb halt1
- halt, hold, arrest - cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"
--1 is one way to stop
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun halt2, noun halt3, noun halt1
They halt the animals
- stop, halt - come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun halt1, noun halt3, noun halt2
These cars won't halt
They halt the animals
- stop, halt, block, kibosh - stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
--3 is one way to prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun halt3, noun halt2
Somebody ----s something
- stem, stanch, staunch, halt - stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide"
--4 is one way to check
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun halt2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something