Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pause
Participle: paused
Gerund: pausing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | pause |
| you | pause |
| he;she;it | pauses |
| we | pause |
| you | pause |
| they | pause |
Perfect
| I | have paused |
| you | have paused |
| he;she;it | has paused |
| we | have paused |
| you | have paused |
| they | have paused |
Past
| I | paused |
| you | paused |
| he;she;it | paused |
| we | paused |
| you | paused |
| they | paused |
Pluperfect
| I | had paused |
| you | had paused |
| he;she;it | had paused |
| we | had paused |
| you | had paused |
| they | had paused |
Future
| I | will pause |
| you | will pause |
| he;she;it | will pause |
| we | will pause |
| you | will pause |
| they | will pause |
Future Perfect
| I | will have paused |
| you | will have paused |
| he;she;it | will have paused |
| we | will have paused |
| you | will have paused |
| they | will have paused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pause |
| you | pause |
| he;she;it | pause |
| we | pause |
| you | pause |
| they | pause |
Perfect
| I | have paused |
| you | have paused |
| he;she;it | have paused |
| we | have paused |
| you | have paused |
| they | have paused |
Imperfect
| I | paused |
| you | paused |
| he;she;it | paused |
| we | paused |
| you | paused |
| they | paused |
Pluperfect
| I | had paused |
| you | had paused |
| he;she;it | had paused |
| we | had paused |
| you | had paused |
| they | had paused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pause |
| you | would pause |
| he;she;it | would pause |
| we | would pause |
| you | would pause |
| they | would pause |
Perfect
| I | would have paused |
| you | would have paused |
| he;she;it | would have paused |
| we | would have paused |
| you | would have paused |
| they | would have paused |
Imperative
| you | pause |
| we | Let's pause |
| you | pause |
Verbs conjugated like 'pause'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pause'
cause,
parse,
payse,
abuse,
amuse,
arse,
base,
bouse,
case,
chuse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- delay
- suspend, deliberate, hesitate, interrupt, rest, tarry, wait, waver
- stop
- arrest, cease, desist, forbear, halt
Antonyms
- delay
- hasten, speed, expedite, dispatch
- stop
- start, initiate, open, proceed
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of pausa. See: Greek, Ancient '
παύω'.
Verbs referencing "pause"
Spanish
pausar, Proto-Slavic
pustiti.
Sample Sentences
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[...] to the purpose. The captain appears on the paddle-box with his speaking trumpet; the officers take their stations; all hands are on the alert; the flagging hopes of the passengers revive; the cooks pause in their savoury work, and look out with faces full of interest. The boat comes alongside; the bags are dragged in anyhow, and flung down for the moment anywhere. Three cheers more: and as the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of the same class, it stands a mile or two without the town, in a cheerful healthy spot; and is an airy, spacious, handsome edifice. It is built upon a height, commanding the harbour. When I paused for a moment at the door, and marked how fresh and free the whole scene was—what sparkling bubbles glanced upon the waves, and welled up every moment to the surface, as though the world below, like [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘Laura accompanied her mother to the door, clinging close to her all the way, until they arrived at the threshold, where she paused, and felt around, to ascertain who was near her. Perceiving the matron, of whom she is very fond, she grasped her with one hand, holding on convulsively to her mother with the other; and thus she [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] weak become so mighty. ~~~ The boundaries of the farm, the grove, the wood-lot, passed by her dizzily, as she walked on; and still she went, leaving one familiar object after another, slacking not, pausing not, till reddening daylight found her many a long mile from all traces of any familiar objects upon the open highway.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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When they had gained the top of the bank, the man paused.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The prison-yard in which he pauses now, has been the scene of terrible performances. Into this narrow, grave-like place, men are brought out to die. The wretched creature stands beneath the gibbet on the ground; the rope about his [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Cicero, when he buried his darling and only daughter, had a heart as full of honest grief as poor Tom’s,—perhaps no fuller, for both were only men; — but Cicero could pause over no such sublime words of hope, and look to no such future reunion; and if he _had_ seen them, ten to one he would not have believed,—he must fill his head first with a thousand questions of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ I will attack no man, ” said George. “ All I ask of this country is to be let alone, and I will go out peaceably; but,”—he paused, and his brow darkened and his face worked,—“I 've had a sister sold in that New Orleans market. I know what they are sold for; and am I going to stand by and see them take my wife and sell her, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] didn't look quite so ugly to me. Some of them were old house-servants, to whom I was much attached; and the younger ones were children to the old. All were well satisfied to be as they were. ” He paused, and walked reflectively up and down the room.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The chapter was the eleventh of John,—the touching account of the raising of Lazarus, St. Clare read it aloud, often pausing to wrestle down feelings which were roused by the pathos of the story. Tom knelt before him, with clasped hands, and with an absorbed expression of love, trust, adoration, on his quiet face.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)