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to pause
01
to briefly stop a particular thing such as process before carrying on
Transitive: to pause an activity or process
Grammatical Information
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
pause
3rd person singular
pauses
Past simple
paused
Past participle
paused
Examples
They are pausing the game to discuss strategy.
02
to stop for a time
Intransitive
Examples
The construction work paused during the heavy rain.
Pause
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Plural form
pauses
Examples
The speaker took a pause to allow the audience to absorb the information.
02
temporary inactivity
03
the action of temporarily stopping the playback of a media file, allowing users to resume from where they left off
