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rest hesitate caesura respite breath stop check break stay haw intermission breather hold ceaseless comma Constant continue hiatus halt resume demur interregnum hem hum interlude interval breathing well go on unceasing slur nonstop resumption repose station break suspension er lapse letup recess holding syncope waiting dwell attacca period end-stopped breathe stint fermata pausal held forbear pausation prompt like beat continuous ahem hesitation dash lull
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corona straight suspense segue abide stopover selah cessation stumble run-on bigeminy grand pause deval GP paused pausing um take a deep breath continuously incessant chugalug alexandrine let-up adjourn uh let up end take a breath stand pauselessly prepausal so ho hand to fist relief enjambed sentential filler intermit runningly diastole layover minibreak headlong enjambement unrespited wait pull eh bring (or pull) someone up short take breath stoppage sit semicolon cadence pausingly wind unpausing pull someone up reconvene dwelling dwelt hem and haw snooze break (one's) stride regroup unresting quaver rest waver masculine caesura stage renewal waffle night-stop deliberate phrase pausefully now go last falter cap redolence comfort stop status asthmaticus feminine caesura reopen wave time bourdon stretch just hmm comfort break what unbroken quadrigeminy glide not miss a beat skol armistice pauseless bathroom break renew just a minute (or moment, or second, etc.) in (full) spate desist breathing space changeover demurrer syllable end–stopped renewed oh bigeminal pulse run–on timeout take incessantly draw breath touchdown h'm quietus self-renewal immediately ballon cease ellipsis standstill crack on tenor unpause and catch proceed station showstopper blow punctus OK recessional you know limma tableau punctus versus interrupt business half run on cooling-off period hesitancy diaeresis dieresis interjection suicide see continuity leonine scansion punctus elevatus liaison halfway instantly broken rhyme figure punctuation pit stop diapause whoa articulate stress–group pregnant nu movable puzzled momentary syllaba anceps idempotent epic caesura dichronous pentameter ponder destination reluctance continual balk epochal vertical blanking interval restart reflection anteroom epoch solitary

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Words For "pause"

As you've probably noticed, words for "pause" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "pause" are: rest, hesitate, caesura, respite, and breath. There are 249 other words that are related to or similar to pause listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "pause" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

About Reverse Dictionary

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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