haltnoun
Noise from passing vehicles forced abrupt halts to the filming of some scenes.
Hardly a single retailer was immune from the abrupt halt in consumer spending.
As we neared the airport, the bus bounced to an abrupt halt.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Not expected or planned
abrupt end
abruptly
abruptness
ad hoc
ad hocism
inadvertency
inadvertent
inadvertently
inconceivable
inconceivably
sine die
spirit
spontaneity
spontaneous
spontaneously
unsuspected
untimely
untoward
unwilled
unwitting
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