halted

Verb (1)

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To limp; move with a limping gait.
   • Here comes Sir Toby halting — you shall hear more; but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
   • How long halt ye between two opinions?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 18:21
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
4. (obsolete) To waver.
5. (obsolete) To falter.

Verb (2)

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To stop marching.

   Synonyms:

   pause

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