{
    "term": "pause",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "pause",
            "heSheIt": "pauses"
        },
        "pastSimple": "paused",
        "pastParticiple": "paused",
        "ingForm": "pausing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to stop talking or doing something for a short time before continuing",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Anita paused for a moment, then said: ‘All right’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The woman spoke almost without **pausing for breath** *(= very quickly)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I paused at the door and looked back."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Pausing only to** pull on a sweater, he ran out of the house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Just pause to think before giving me your answer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She paused a moment and then walked away."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She paused occasionally to smell the flowers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Without pausing to knock, she opened the door."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["briefly", "(for) a moment", "momentarily"],
                "phrases": [
                    "pause for breath",
                    "pause for thought",
                    "pause only long enough to do something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to stop a video, etc. for a short time using the pause button",
            "sensetop": "pause something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She paused the movie to go and answer the door."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɔːz/",
                "audio": "pa/pause/pause__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːzɪz/",
                "audio": "pa/pause/pauses__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɔːzd/",
                "audio": "pa/pause/paused__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "pa/pause/pausing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɔːz/",
                "audio": "pa/pause/pause__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːzɪz/",
                "audio": "pa/pause/pauses__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɔːzd/",
                "audio": "pa/pause/paused__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "pa/pause/pausing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pausa, from Greek pausis, from pausein ‘to stop’."
}