halt vs shutdown

halt

noun
  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent. 

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

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. 

shutdown

noun
  • The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc. 

  • A statement, insult, etc. that prevents the opponent from replying further. 

  • An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the individual freezes up and becomes silent, motionless, and unresponsive. 

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