pause
/pɔz/ verb B1- To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- To stop (an activity) for a while.
- To interrupt an activity and wait. · When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
- To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point. · to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
He/she/it pauses · Past paused · Past participle paused · -ing form pausing
Verb forms
- Base form
- pause
- He/she/it
- pauses
- Past
- paused
- Past participle
- paused
- -ing form
- pausing
From the library
Then, suddenly pausing, he added, “Your pardon, sire, but my devotion to your majesty has made me forget, not the respect I have, for that is too deeply engraved in my heart, but the rules of etiquette.”
Never mind,” he continued, more brightly, after a pause.
As Edmond paused, the black and bearded head of Caderousse appeared at the door.
We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having traversed La Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allées de Meilhan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.
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