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halt

/hɔːlt/
verb
  1. To limp; move with a limping gait.

  2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.

  3. To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.

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