engender vs halt

engender

verb
  • To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. 

  • To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. 

  • To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). 

  • To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. 

halt

verb
  • To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. 

  • To bring to a stop. 

  • To limp; move with a limping gait. 

  • To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. 

  • To falter. 

  • To stop marching. 

  • To stop either temporarily or permanently. 

  • To cause to discontinue. 

  • To waver. 

noun
  • A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom. 

  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent. 

How often have the words engender and halt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )