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grinding halt

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This would freeze the settlements by bringing construction to a grinding halt.

Even before the boy signaled, the car came to a grinding halt a short distance away.

They smacked into the tangle of Star Point trucks, and came to a grinding halt, men piling out ready for battle.

Before a three-story gray stone building the car came to a grinding halt.

A taxi had come to a grinding halt directly below the window.

The copper-yellow glow of the comet seemed to have brought the whole world to a grinding halt.

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On this page you'll find 126 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to grinding halt, such as: abeyance, arrest, break, break off, breather, and cease.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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