Difference between Halt and Staunch

HALT vs STAUNCH: NOUN

A disease in sheep.
The act of limping; lameness; a defect in gait.
A suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one.
A stop; a suspension of progress in walking, riding, or going in any manner, and especially in marching.
The state of inactivity following an interruption
The event of something ending
A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.
An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
The act of limping; lameness.
Lameness; a limp.
A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.

To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.
To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.
To walk lamely; to limp.
To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.
To cause to stop: : stop.
To be defective or proceed poorly, as in the development of an argument in logic or in the rhythmic structure of verse.
To proceed or act with uncertainty or indecision; waver.
To walk lamely or move in an irregular fashion.
To stop; pause.

To bring to a stand; cause to cease marching: as, the general halted his troops.
A Middle English contraction of haldeth, equivalent to holdeth, third person singular of the present indicative of hold.
To limp; move with a limping gait.
Lame; not able to walk without limping.
To stop in walking or going; cease to advance; stop for a longer or shorter time on a march, as a body of troops.
To stand in doubt; hesitate; linger; delay.
3d pers. sing. pres. of hold, contraction for holdeth.
Cause to come to an abrupt stop
To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection of ideas, or in measure or versification: as, a halting metaphor; a halting sonnet.

Unfit, Stay, Staunch, Hitch, Arrest, Hold, Settle, Stoppage, Block, Crippled, Stem, Kibosh, Stanch, Freeze, Stop

Tenacious, Unwavering, Unyielding, Devout, Resolute, Outspoken, Stalwart, Fervent, Ardent, Halt, Constant, Stem, Stanch, Unswerving, Steadfast

Lame, Unfit, Stay, Staunch, Hitch, Arrest, Hold, Settle, Stoppage, Block, Crippled, Stem, Stanch, Freeze, Stop

Tenacious, Unwavering, Unyielding, Devout, Resolute, Outspoken, Stalwart, Fervent, Ardent, Halt, Constant, Stem, Stanch, Unswerving, Steadfast

Halt Auction from being reviewed as clearly erroneous.
Japanese cry halt, for this is sacred ground.
NOTE: This message does not halt the Loader.
Oversoul spectre could halt the great evil beast.
These actions detect and halt specific Windows processes.
Regional Water Quality Control Board had ordered halt Regional Water Quality Control Board had ordered halt to hookups until extra sewer capacity created.
Halt at a station as per the scheduled halt time as prescribed in main Indian railway time table has time.
May or may not halt at a Station as per the scheduled halt time for this train starts at and.
To Halt, Step, Walk, and Resume a task Halt button will become active after you select a running task.
To halt from double time, the command Flight, HALT is given as either foot strikes the ground, with four steps between commands.

Colonels were in staunch support of alcohol consumption.
North, most of whom had been staunch Democrats.
Stanch, Staunch, to stop a flow of blood.
She is a staunch opponent of cancer quackery.
GHLF is also a staunch advocate for vaccines.
President who was a staunch supporter of slavery.
Senate Majority Leader, and staunch Democrat, Harry Reid.
Oh, and a staunch supporter of general aviation.
From the laws perspective, staunch abolitionists willnever vote to execute, and staunch supporters will always vote toexecute.
For the record, I grew up a staunch Democrat and am now a staunch Libertarian.