stop/freeze in one's tracks

: to close by filling or obstructing

: to hinder or prevent the passage of

: to get in the way of : be wounded or killed by

: cessation, end

: a pause or breaking off in speech

: a graduated set of organ pipes of similar design and tone quality

: serving to stop : designed to stop

: to become congealed into ice by cold

: to solidify as a result of abstraction of heat

: to withstand freezing

: an act or instance of freezing

: the state of being frozen

: a state of weather marked by low temperature especially when below the freezing point

: a footprint whether recent or fossil

: detectable evidence (such as the wake of a ship, a line of footprints, or a wheel rut) that something has passed

: a path made by or as if by repeated footfalls : trail

: to follow the tracks or traces of : trail

: to search for by following evidence until found

: to follow by vestiges : trace