Pause is valid Scrabble Word

Is pause a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is pause valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for PAUSE in dictionary:

VERB:

to stop temporarily
interrupt action or speech briefly
temporarily interrupt the operation of (a process or device)
stop for a time
To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
cease an action temporarily

NOUN:

a temporary stop in action or speech
a mark over a note or rest that is to be lengthened by an unspecified amount.
a control allowing the temporary interruption of recording, playback, or other process.

A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
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.
A break or paragraph in writing.
A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
temporary inactivity
stop or rest in speech or action

Words related to PAUSE

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How to use PAUSE in a sentence

So far we had seen nothing to give us pause, and the only risk lay in some Indian finding and following our trail.
When he stood close to the head he shook so that he was obliged to pause for a moment.
After the reading was finished and one or two of the lawyers had made short speeches, there was a pause.
This seems to suggest that both a pause and a contraction may be denoted by the same point.
After a short pause, it struck me the present might be a favourable moment to say a ward on the subject of the future.
Then there was a short pause, while the prosecutor for the Crown laid down his notes.
I took advantage of the pause to draw in a long breath, for I, too, felt as if I had a weight on my chest.
A fact so significant might lead us well to pause, and ask ourselves whether we have found the true answer to the question.
The pause, though, robbed Sanderson of his chance to escape.
Without a perceptible pause, the Highlanders and Gurkhas together rushed a third position, the most important of all, as it commanded the head of the pass.

Stroke after stroke he executed with flawless accuracy and with scarcely a pause, moving to and fro about the table without lifting his eyes from the balls.
A pause had fallen on the conversation, in which the father and daughter heard the solemn sighing of the wintry wind around the dwelling.
Even when we were so hotly pressed that there was often no pause made for a meal, a joke in the saddle was relished in the place of food.
But Hector with the rage Burns of consuming fire, nor to his spear 680 Gives pause, for him Jove leads to victory.
It may be well to pause here a moment to notice that this position very greatly increases the difficulties in the way of a solution of the life problem.
This is a retribution which is reasonable, moral, unavoidable, before which we may well pause and tremble.
Neither dared pause and desperation had endowed them with a strength as unwonted and exaggerated as that which his frenzy brings to a maniac.
Into the midst of that brief, freezing pause, I plunged.
You must widen and internationalize, without pause or limit, all which permits of it.
Riatt heard him go into the little drawing-room overhead, and then there was a long pause.
There was no pause in the outpouring of the melody.
Happiness is impossible and even inconceivable to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, and fear.
It dazzled her as she entered, but yet she did not pause.

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