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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pause:   (203 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, break, breathe, caesura, catch one's breath, delay, falter, faltering, freeze, halftime, halt, hem and haw, hesitation, hold, intermission, lapse, letup, lull, postponement, recess, relief, respite, rest, rest period, scruple, take a breather, take five, take ten, time-out, time lag, time out, wait, 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, delay, disrupt, inactivity, interrupt, interval, time interval

Synonyms:
break, hesitate, intermission, intermit, interruption, suspension

Also try:
— Adjectives for pause: long, short, brief, slight, little, momentary, awkward, second, longer, compensatory, considerable, more...

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