Halt Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "STOP" which means:

noun
• • The event of something ending
• • The act of stopping something
• • A brief stay in the course of a journey
• • The state of inactivity following an interruption
• • A spot where something halts or pauses
• • A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
• • A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
• • (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
• • A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
• • A restraint that checks the motion of something
• • An obstruction in a pipe or tube
verb
• • Come to a halt, stop moving
• • Put an end to a state or an activity
• • Stop from happening or developing
• • Interrupt a trip
• • Cause to end
• • Prevent completion
• • Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
• • Seize on its way
• • Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
• • Render unsuitable for passage
• • Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
adjective
• • Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

An example sentence would be:

• • "I missed my bus because i couldn't find the bus stop."
• • "The delivery truck made a sudden stop to avoid hitting a pedestrian."

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