Freeze
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A period of intensely cold weather. A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out. A halt of a regular operation. A block on pay rises.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. To be very cold. To become motionless. To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
Example sentence: During the Clinton administration, engagement, backed by the threat of force, convinced Pyongyang to freeze its dangerous nuclear program and put a moratorium on the production of long-range missiles.
Halt
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to stop either temporarily or permanentlyto cause something to stopto waver or be hesitantto proceed lamelyto waverto falter
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A cessation, either temporary or permanent.A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.lameness; a limp.(used with a plural verb) lame people, esp. severely lamed ones (usually preceded by the)
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: lame
Example sentence: Out of the ashes of the Great War came the freewheeling cultural renaissance that was the Jazz Age, but the decade-long party of flapper dresses and bootlegging came to a crashing halt with the Crash of '29 - triggering the Great Depression and the New Deal that would help America get back on its feet, just in time for another, greater war.