halt vs realize

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. 

realize

verb
  • To sense vividly or strongly; to make one's own in thought or experience. 

  • To become aware of (a fact or situation, especially of something that has been true for a long time). 

  • To cause to seem real to other people. 

  • To turn an abstract linguistic object into actual language, especially said of a phoneme's conversion into speech sound. 

  • To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into reality; to bring into real existence 

  • To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get 

  • To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, such as shares, bonds, etc. 

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