Decide to call a halt to (8)
I believe the answer is:
conclude
'decide' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
I can't explain the rest of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for conclude that I've seen before include "Wind up" , "Reach an opinion based on reasoning" , "Finally decide" , "Terminate; deduce" , "Decide by reasoning or come to a close" .)