Crossword-Solution: PAUSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
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Hint 2 anagram
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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.
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.
The plea thou urgest, needs must give us pause, Set forth in weighty argument, but we Must leave the issue with the ruling powers.
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.
You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk? Even the breeze stops in the trees.
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…
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.
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
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).