Ending and Halt

Ending

Ending noun - The stopping of a process or activity.

Usage example: the best part about any dental procedure is its ending

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Halt and ending are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Halt" instead a noun "Ending".

Nearby Words: end, ended

Halt noun - The stopping of a process or activity.

Usage example: gardening came to a halt during the week of solid rain

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Ending and halt are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ending" instead a noun "Halt".

Nearby Words: halted, halting, haltingly

dead	dead ending	dead halt
abrupt	abrupt ending	abrupt halt

As Dean Ween explains at the end of one performance (lyrics NSFW), "It doesn't have a real ending, it just like... dribbles to a halt."

Source: No Ending
To quote from the final lines of the ending, And then, when Haru told him the name of his daughter, the powdery snow suddenly came to a halt.

Source: Visual Novel / G-Senjou no Maou
Their show, until then one of the most successful in Las Vegas's history, came to an immediate halt, and the incident was one of the contributing factors (along with protests by animal rights groups and the success of Cirque du Soleil) in ending the use of exotic animals in magic acts.

Source: Career-Ending Injury

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