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