halting

adjectives

disabled in the feet or legs
"a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"
fragmentary or halting from emotional strain
"uttered a few halting words of sorrow"
is similar to
not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
"broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs"