Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pause: (187 results)
Often used in the same context:
breather, rewind, lull, moment, caesura, interrupt, yawn, breaths, delay, muting, willies, pullback, downshift, hesitation, swoon, silence, snooze, brief, exhale, digression, nudge, reprieve, glimmer, whirl, sip, cringe, goosebumps, shudder, interlude, hug, gooseflesh, deceleration, blip, time, aha, peek, twitch, stare, eternities, inflection, snicker, shift gears, spurt, shrift, hint, sigh, slowing, prompts, coda, retrospection, nanosecond, glance, summation, millisecond, fadeout, slide, leeway, mull, flatline, respite, dovishness, blinks, drumroll, accelerando, timeline, glace, snapshot, wince, cue, contemplation, flashback, benediction, aah, annunciate, thaw, mishear, bursts, savor, futz, halt, goose bumps, subjunctive mood, goose bump, infinitum, naysay, snippet, backtrack, bump, affirmatives, spike, flicker, invocation, parsing, boomlet, juncture, hiatus, pulse, shivers, hiccup, reassurance, tweak, freeze, pauses, wait, intermission, lapse, silences, break, hush, intermissions, misgiving, jolt, detour, disappointment, hesitations, update, accelerating, accrual, briefest, capture, chronological, commit, compute, confusing, considered, contact, def1nite, define, definite, diastolic, differing, earlier, egological, embarrassing
More specific:
blackout, breathe, catch one's breath, falter, faltering, halftime, hem and haw, hold, letup, postponement, recess, relief, rest, rest period, scruple, take a breather, take five, take ten, time-out, time lag, time out, waver
Appears in the definition of:
., break, caesura, end-stopped, enjambement, enjambment, helter-skelter, hesitate, letup, lull, noticeable, orienting, perceptible, recess, relief, respite, rest, rest period, run-on, time out, waffle, waver
More general:
break up, cut off, disrupt, inactivity, interval, time interval
Synonyms:
Also try:intermit, interruption, suspension
— Adjectives for pause: long, short, brief, slight, little, momentary, awkward, second, longer, compensatory, considerable, more...
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