Clues for the word "PAUSE"
We've had 104 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 208 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 09, 2026.
Definition of pause
- n. - A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- n. - Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
- n. - In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
- n. - In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
- n. - A break or paragraph in writing.
- n. - A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
- n. - To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
- n. - To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
- n. - To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- n. - To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
- v. t. - To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
Referring Clues
- VCR button
- Hiatus
- 7-Across option
- Temporary halt
- Stop
- Stop for a second
- Remote control button
- Time-out
- YouTube button
- VCR button pushed for a snack break
- Dramatic effect
- Break
- Temporary time-out
- DVD remote button
- DVD button
- Suspension
- Tape recorder button
- Video game function
- Remote function
- One that may be pregnant
- TiVo function
- Momentary rest
- "Play" button's alternate function, often
- TiVo remote feature
- Take a break
- Momentary halt
- Remote-control button
- Stop for a bit
- DVD-player button
- Remote button
- Brief halt
- VCR remote button
- TiVo feature
- DVD player button
- One way to stop
- Play button's alternate function, often
- VCR command
- Suspend
- Momentary cessation
- Function on a remote
- Caesura
- Rest
- Recorder button
- Obey a comma
- Break in the action
- Hesitate
- Lull
- Brief rest
- Stop briefly
- Button marked with two vertical bars
- Remote button with two vertical bars
- iPod button
- DVR remote button
- Button on aDVD remote
- Hesitation
- Stoppage
- DVR button
- Brief stop
- Temporary stop
- Stop to think, say
- Respite
- Take five
- Stop for a moment
- Short stop
- Comma, to an orator
- Breathing spell
- Button with two vertical lines
- Take a timeout
- Brief cessation
- Brief stop in the action
- Play's counterpart
- Hesitated
- Computer key
- Stop temporarily
- Stop just a bit
- Stop a show on a DVR
- Hands, we hear, hesitate
- Interruption
- Intermission
- Gap
- Interval
- When there's nothing doing for the moment, dad gets employment
- Wait for dad to get help
- Delay dad getting employment
- Dad has to exercise in break
- YouTube viewers option
- Stop listening to the catwalk operators
- Short stoppage
- Take a beat
- Play/___ (remote button)
- ||, on a remote
- Meaning of two vertical lines, at times
- Take a minute
- Show-stopping remote button
- Playback stopper
- Short delay
- Halt for a moment
- TiVo remote button
- Press "K" while on YouTube
- Take a breather
- Short break
- TV remote button
- Breather
- Maybe ease up, all but initially
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 09, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - September 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 13, 2025
- Daily American - July 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 26, 2025
- New York Times - February 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 21, 2025
- USA Today - December 31, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 17, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 22, 2024
- LA Times - April 14, 2024
- USA Today - March 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 04, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 17, 2023
- Daily American - July 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 04, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 16, 2023
- Mirror Daily - May 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 20, 2023
- And in 178 more crossword puzzles...