Crossword clues for pausing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pause \Pause\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paused; p. pr. & vb. n. Pausing.] [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See Pause, n., Pose.]
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To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. ``Tarry, pause a day or two.''
--Shak.Pausing while, thus to herself she mused.
--Milton. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
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To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.]
Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
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To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. [R.] ``Take time to pause.''
--Shak.To pause upon, to deliberate concerning.
--Shak.Syn: To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur.
Wiktionary
n. A pause. vb. (present participle of pause English)
Usage examples of "pausing".
He moved slowly down the aisle, pausing at each seat to bless and embrace before he left the plane.
He kept pausing, hoping the hermit listening to his story would offer advice, but the old ordinary of Our Lady of the Desert only nodded his understanding from time to time.
She stretched lazily and picked herself up, pausing to brush off the leaves of grass pasted to her wet skin.
TURNED away and climbed the slope, pausing twice to rest, for the long endurance of hypnohibernosis had weakened him.
He began at the shoulders and worked stroke by stroke toward the waist, pausing occasionally to rub his fingers roughly over the wounds.
I hurried to the fork and climbed up out of the knee-deep water, pausing to strike a match.
Not bothering to test the door set into the garden wall, he threw his boots over the top into the lane beyond and, quick as a rat up a drainpipe, scrambled after them, stubbing his toe badly in the process, pausing only long enough on the other side to retrieve his boots before making good his escape down the lane and into the Kings Road beyond.
Ikey watched again as the older turnkey made several unsuccessful thrusts at the lock before pausing to carefully place his tankard of brandy on the floor between his legs.
Bennigsen entered hurriedly, and nodding to Bolkonski, but not pausing, went into the study, giving instructions to his adjutant as he went.
Petya, and without pausing a moment galloped to the place whence came the sounds of firing and where the smoke was thickest.
She went in with rapid steps, pausing at the door for an instant as if struggling with herself, and then ran to her mother.
Gwyon had climbed to the pines behind the town, pausing to breathe and smell the delicious freshness of manure, to realize how his senses had fallen into disuse under the abuses of cities.
He looked up earnestly, pausing now as though he expected to be prompted, to see his father watching him with eyes which, had he known it, blazed with the same wild intensity as his own in fever.
Her hand moves quickly, but too late, where she has been pausing, holding cloth.
He walked in and out of its streets, looking about casually, pausing only when he saw his sudden reflection in a shop window.