Scrabble?! PAUSE

Definitions of PAUSE in various dictionaries:

noun - a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

noun - temporary inactivity

verb - interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing

verb - cease an action temporarily

To cease or suspend an action temporarily.

To linger; tarry: paused for a while under the huge oak tree.

To hesitate: He paused before replying.

A temporary cessation.

A delay or suspended reaction, as from uncertainty; a hesitation: After a pause the audience broke into cheers.

A break, stop, or rest, often for a calculated purpose or effect: After a dramatic pause, the lawyer finished her summation.

Music.

A break or rest in a line of poetry; a caesura.

The central meaning shared by these noun s is “a temporary stop, as in activity”: a short pause in the conversation; a concert with the usual 15-minute intermission; the legislature’s summer recess; toiling without respite; a suspension of work.

verb - to stop temporarily