Halting Synonyms and Antonyms

hôltĭng
Cause to stop
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. squelching
  2. limping
  3. fazing
  4. freezing
  5. scotching
  6. disallowing
  7. crushing
  8. opposing
  9. forbidding
  10. finishing
  11. arresting
  12. discomfiting
  13. subduing
  14. quashing
  15. outdoing
  16. routing
  17. prohibiting
  18. outwitting
  19. quelling
  20. worsting
  21. counteracting
  22. reducing
  23. overturning
  24. contravening
  25. debarring
  26. confounding
  27. baffling
  28. upsetting
  29. damming
  30. overriding
  31. disconcerting
  32. vanquishing
  33. overthrowing
  34. precluding
  35. constraining
  36. undermining
  37. hobbling
  38. impeding
  39. barricading
  40. hindering
  41. inhibiting
  42. repressing
  43. obstructing
  44. blockading
  45. extinguishing
  46. intercepting
  47. abating
  48. clogging
  49. suppressing
  50. frustrating
  51. hampering
  52. thwarting
  53. defeating
  54. foiling
  55. restricting
  56. stopping
  57. curbing
  58. stalling
  59. deterring
  60. balking
  61. stemming
  62. adjourning
  63. blocking
  64. punctuating
  65. intermitting
  66. interrupting
  67. suspending
  68. terminating
  69. checking
  70. staying
  71. hitching
  72. holding
Antonyms:
  1. starting
  2. forging
  3. instigating
  4. forwarding
  5. pushing
  6. continuing
  7. beginning
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To be irresolute in acting or doing
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wobbling
  2. wavering
  3. vacillating
  4. staggering
  5. pausing
  6. hesitating
  7. faltering
  8. dithering
Stop the flow of a liquid
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stopping
  2. stemming
  3. staying
  4. discontinuing
  5. wavering
  6. surceasing
  7. terminating
  8. suspending
  9. standing
  10. ceasing
  11. pausing
  12. limping
  13. stalling
  14. interrupting
  15. inhibiting
  16. hobbling
  17. hitching
  18. arresting
  19. hesitating
  20. hampering
  21. checking
  22. foiling
  23. ending
  24. desisting
  25. blocking
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To cause to stop:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stopping

Words Related to Halting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Halting Sentence Examples

  • Once on the street, Dean put up a halting hand.

  • Burgess stepped back, holding up his hand in a halting motion.

  • When he did so and heard the subdued moaning with which Karataev generally lay down at the halting places, and when he smelled the odor emanating from him which was now stronger than before, Pierre moved farther away and did not think about him.

  • He found the language rough and halting, and he moulded it into perfect smoothness and elasticity.

  • When the troops reached their night's halting place on the eighth of November, the last day of the Krasnoe battles, it was already growing dusk.

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