Delay
Halt
Halt verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Usage example: the private eye abruptly halted his surveillance of the building upon being spotted by his subject
Delay is a synonym for halt in break topic. Sometimes you can use "Delay" instead the word "Halt" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as duration.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| brief | brief delay | brief halt |
| temporary | temporary delay | temporary halt |
| less | less delay | less halt |
| unexpected | unexpected delay | unexpected halt |
| Other adjectives: sudden. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Furthermore all attempts to escape, reverse, halt, or even delay this is met by hostility and war from religious fanatics.
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In "Elementary, My Dear Winston," we see a mechanism has been installed to force a time delay to give the guys time to get down there to halt the process.
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In America at least, the ability to use a filibuster to halt the passing of a bill became so annoying that it was decided that any use of it could be overridden by a 60% majority simply because pretty much anyone could delay a bill and piss off everyone just by talking for a long time.
Source: Talking the Monster to Death
Cite this Source
Halt and Delay. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/delay/halt
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