Definition of "halting" []

• Hesitant or wavering: a halting voice. (adjective)
• Imperfect; defective: halting verse. (adjective)
• Limping; lame. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Anyone who believed in halting the spread of corruption and extremism has lost."
• "Frona cried, her tongue halting from the disuse of years."
• "This means that the vaccine would have had a chance to be effective in halting the very worst of the second wave."