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Pause   /pɔz/   Listen
Pause

noun
1.
A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.  Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, suspension.
2.
Temporary inactivity.
verb
(past & past part. paused; pres. part. pausing)
1.
Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing.  Synonym: hesitate.
2.
Cease an action temporarily.  Synonyms: break, intermit.  "Let's break for lunch"






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"Pause" Quotes from Famous Books



... do either, my dear father. said a playful voice from under the ample inclosures of the hood, than to kill deer with a smooth-bore. A short pause followed, and the same voice, but in a different accent, continued. We shall have good reasons for our thanksgiving to night, on more ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper

... to be the usual winter pause over the greater part of the war area, but round about here, there are the most awful massacres; 550,000 Armenians have been slaughtered in cold blood by the Turks, and with cruelties that pass all telling. One ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... a pause, but Caroline and Clara did not look satisfied. Miss Morley knew they would leave her no peace if she desisted, and she went on,—"I wish I could sometimes see a ...
— The Two Guardians • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... the road was strewn with high-power automobiles and motor-trucks that the Germans had been forced to destroy. Something had gone wrong, something that at other times could easily have been mended. But with the French in pursuit there was no time to pause, nor could cars of such value be left to the enemy. So they had been set on fire or blown up, or allowed to drive head-on into a stone wall or over an embankment. From the road above we could see them in the field below, ...
— With the Allies • Richard Harding Davis

... excusing it; she was confounded with Shame, and the more she strove to hide it, the more it disorder'd her; so that she (blushing extremely) hung down her Head, sigh'd, and confess'd all by her Looks. At last, after a considering Pause, she cry'd, 'My dearest Sister, I do confess, I was surpriz'd at the sight of Monsieur Henault, and much more than ever you have observ'd me to be at the sight of his Person, because there is scarce a day wherein I do not see that, ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn


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