📖 Определения и значения для слова halt
📒 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.
📒 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.