Definition of stop/freeze in one's tracks
- He stopped/froze in his tracks, turned, and came back.
: 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 search for by following evidence until found
: to follow by vestiges : trace
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