Crossword-Solution: PAUSE 5 letters, 243 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Pause n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action;
interruption; suspension; cessation.
Pause n. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
Pause n. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension
of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their
parts.
Pause n. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and
nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach
the pupil to mind the pauses.
Pause n. A break or paragraph in writing.
Pause n. A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
Pause n. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit
speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
Pause n. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
Pause n. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
Pause n. To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to
reflect.
Pause v. t. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

We have 243 clues for the answer “PAUSE”

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"Play" button's alternate function, often 1 answer
Intermission during a show 1 answer
An interval of silence. 1 answer
BREATHING place 1 answer
Brief cessation 1 answer
Brief halt 1 answer
Brief stop 1 answer
Brief stop in the action 1 answer
Button marked with two vertical bars 1 answer
Button on aDVD remote 1 answer
Button with two vertical lines 1 answer
Children's Hour, e.g. 1 answer
Comma connotation 1 answer
Comma, essentially 1 answer
Comma, to an orator 1 answer
Dramatic effect 1 answer
Exercise button 1 answer
Exercycle button 1 answer
Function on a remote 1 answer
Halt briefly 1 answer
Halt for a moment 1 answer
Longfellow's children's hour. 1 answer
Meaning of two vertical lines, at times 1 answer
Momentary cessation 1 answer
Momentary halt 1 answer
Momentary rest 1 answer
Obey a comma 1 answer
One that may be pregnant 1 answer
Play's counterpart 1 answer
Play/___ (remote button) 1 answer
Playback stopper 1 answer
Recorder word 1 answer
Remote button that stops a show 1 answer
Remote button with two vertical bars 1 answer
Show-stopping remote button 1 answer
Station break. 1 answer
Stop briefly 1 answer
Stop for a moment 1 answer
Stop for a sec 1 answer
Stop for a second 1 answer
Stop for station identification. 1 answer
Stop to think, say 1 answer
Take a beat 1 answer
Take a minute 1 answer
Temporary halt 1 answer
Temporary time-out 1 answer
That which refreshes 1 answer
TiVo function 1 answer
TiVo remote feature 1 answer
VCR button pushed for a snack break 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PAUSE (5)

The boys vanish in the gloom, and after a pause, but not a long pause, for things go briskly on the island, come the pirates on their track.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
But well thou comst Before thy fellows, ambitious to win From me som Plume, that thy success may show Destruction to the rest: this pause between (Unanswerd least thou boast) to let thee know; At first I thought that Libertie and Heav’n To heav’nly Soules had bin all one; but now I see that most through sloth had rather serve, Ministring Spirits, traind up in Feast and Song; Such hast thou arm’d, the Minstrelsie of Heav’n, Servilitie with freedom to contend, As both thir deeds compar’d this day shall prove.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The plea thou urgest, needs must give us pause, Set forth in weighty argument, but we Must leave the issue with the ruling powers.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
But still, methinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it up in his heart.” There was another pause, and the physician began anew to examine and arrange the plants which he had gathered.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk? Even the breeze stops in the trees.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with PAUSE (3)

And when she at last came out, her eyes were dry. Her parents stared up from their silent breakfast at her. They both started to rise but she put a hand out, stopped them. ‘I can care for myself, please,’ and she set about getting some food. They watched her closely. In point of fact, she had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, and an ocean sadder. This one understood…
William Goldman The Princess Bride
After a long pause in which he took the time to blink several times, he asked, "You named your breasts?" I turned my back to him with a shrug. "I named my ovaries, too, but they don't get out as much.
Darynda Jones First Grave on the Right
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
Leo Tolstoy
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 206 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).