Synonyms for pause
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1. pause

   Strains of music may gradually or suddenly cease. A man quits work on the instant; he may discontinue a practise gradually; he quits suddenly and completely; he stops short in what he may or may not resume; he pauses in what he will probably resume. What intermits or is intermitted returns again, as a fever that intermits. Compare ABANDON; DIE; END; REST.

   Synonyms:
   abstain, bring to an end, cease, come to an end, conclude, desist, discontinue, end, end, finish, give over, intermit, leave off, quit, refrain, stop, terminate

   Antonyms:
   begin, commence, enter upon, inaugurate, initiate, institute, originate, set about, set going, set in operation, set on foot, start

   Preposition:
   Cease from anger.

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1. pausenoun

   Synonyms:
   stop, cessation, suspension, halt, intermission, rest

   Antonyms:
   continuance, advancement, perseverance

2. pauseverb

   Synonyms:
   cease, suspend, intermit, forbear, stay, wait, hesitate, demur, stop, desist

   Antonyms:
   continue, proceed, advance, persist, persevere

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspensionnoun

   a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

   Synonyms:
   prison-breaking, gap, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, interruption, rift, intermission, severance, gaolbreak, falling out, hanging, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, geological fault, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, reprieve, open frame, abatement, break of serve, hiatus, breach, breakage, abeyance, suspension system, fault, shift, fracture, time out, temporary removal, rupture, dangling

2. pauseverb

   temporary inactivity

   Synonyms:
   intermission, interruption, suspension, break

3. hesitate, pauseverb

   interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing

   "The speaker paused"

   Synonyms:
   waver, break, intermit, hesitate, waffle

4. pause, intermit, breakverb

   cease an action temporarily

   "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch"

   Synonyms:
   demote, weaken, kick downstairs, cave in, collapse, let on, break-dance, split up, interrupt, offend, reveal, die, disclose, soften, expose, fail, smash, crack, wear out, hesitate, get around, go bad, break up, recrudesce, intermit, break away, split, unwrap, come apart, bankrupt, ruin, give, dampen, give away, get out, break off, separate, fall apart, break out, fall in, give out, go, founder, break in, bust, damp, break dance, stop, divulge, breach, check, snap off, transgress, violate, erupt, fracture, bring out, break down, discontinue, give way, conk out, better, part, relegate, burst, break, bump, infract, go against, discover, develop, wear, let out

Matched Categories

1. • Delay
   • Interrupt

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. selah

   stop for a moment

   he paused while reading the bible passage.

   Submitted by rinat on January 31, 2016  

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1. pausenoun

   Synonyms:
   stop, cessation, suspension, interruption, rest, halt, intermission, remission, stoppage, stopping, break, CÆSURA

2. pausenoun

   Synonyms:
   point, punctuation mark

3. pauseverb

   Synonyms:
   stop, cease, desist, wait, delay, rest, breathe, stay, break off

4. pauseverb

   Synonyms:
   hesitate, demur, deliberate, waver

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1. pausenoun

   Synonyms:
   intermission, suspension, break, hesitation, break, cæsura

2. pauseverb

   Synonyms:
   stop, hesitate, desist, waver, intermit

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "pause":

   break, pausing, pauses, paused, recess, lull, stop, interruption, hiatus

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1. Patrick Pouyanne:

   Mr Adani has other things to deal with now, it’s just good sense to pause things while the audit goes forward.

2. Susan Hassig:

   Tulane University certainly gave me pause, because Tulane University was so high. And then I looked at all the parishes near Tulane University, and they were also elevated, in epidemiology, we call that an ecologic correlation. So it's a big factor that connects and fits a pattern. But unless we can make the connection at the individual level, it's not something that we can really act upon.

3. Barbara Holt:

   This would give her an opportunity to pause and really take into consideration what decision she's making, we have a right that trumps free speech, and that's our unalienable right to life.

4. So I Married an Axe Murderer:

   John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria

5. Aaron Stein:

   What gives us pause about this attack is that while the others were haphazard and sloppy ... the size of this explosion suggests something more sophisticated, that would suggest organisation beyond a lone wolf cooking up something in their kitchen.