Like some DVDs in DVD players

• Took a breather
• Stopped temporarily
• Held up
• Waited for the laughter to die down
• Clicked the double vertical bar on a YouTube video
• Didn't immediately go on
• Employment in someone's home put on hold
• Didn't go straight
• Took five

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: pause )