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The heart was in standstill, hazy clots filling the ventricles.
The business has ground to a standstill as hair suppliers in other parts of Ukraine are leery of coming to the capital.
For now it is an industry consumed by accusation, fear, and disease even as a moratorium has brought business to a standstill.
Reconstruction and new construction in Gaza is at a standstill.
It imploded with the 1978–79 Winter of Discontent, when rampant trade-union militancy brought Britain to a standstill.
The city and commercial suburb of Binondo wore their usual aspect, although trade was almost at a standstill.
Consequently everything is at a standstill, until God shall remedy it.
At last he came abruptly to a standstill by the Seneschal's writing-table, immediately opposite Tressan.
She pulled her hoss down to a standstill; and them long eye-winkers of hern lifted straight up into the air, she was so surprised.
His musical progress, which had made such strides between 1848 and 1849, now came to a standstill that lasted ten years.
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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to standstill, such as: dead end, deadlock, impasse, stalemate, arrest, and cessation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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