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Definition of pausing : of Pause

Synonyms:

faltering, hesitating, delaying, balking, recoiling, waiting, shrinking

calming, stilling, resting, subsiding, vegetating, becalming, fixing, slumbering, standing, tranquilizing, sleeping, settling, stagnating, marking time, quieting, settling down

freezing, holding

recessing, reprieving, snagging, relieving, postponing

desisting, ceasing, quitting, interrupting, closing, breaking, remitting, halting, staying, stopping, suspending, terminating, culminating, ending, discontinuing, abandoning, refraining

Usage examples:

• Then she said, quietly, " I rejoice to know it," and, pausing, looked at him again. - "In the Day of Adversity", John Bloundelle-Burton.
• It was Rudyard's footsteps outside her door, Rudyard's voice speaking to some one; then Rudyard's footsteps pausing; and afterwards a dead silence. - "The Judgment House", Gilbert Parker.
• The Prince allowed himself to be guided by the old courier along the narrow pass, looking back continually so long as the carriage was visible, and mournfully pausing whenever he caught sight of it again from the top of some mountain- ridge. - "The Slaves of the Padishah", Mór Jókai.