cessation
pause
halt
delay
holdup
suspension
still
cancellarian
interruption
break
intermission
deep freeze
dead
reprieve
end of the line
quietus
pend
discontinuance
discontinuation
respite
suspensation
desistance
forbear
demur
end
arrestation
in mitius
abeyance
gap
cutoff
tie-up
disruption
delayability
yet
reprieval
wait
freeze
soft
closure
knockout
temporariness
stay
stop order
hit pause
kick into the long grass
suspend
temporaneousness
halting
hesitate
put the brakes on
time-out
intermit
cold storage
tonic
bode
knock it off
idempotence
sist
procrastinate
forestall
minor
venial
away
closing
phase-out
transience
and be done with it
nonprovocation
abatement
pausal
noncontinuous
nonpostponement
leave off
deceleration
clip
snooze
curtail
cut short
terminative
put a pin in
deattenuation
procrastination
pausable
cancellarian
dead
soft
tonic
minor
venial
pausal
noncontinuous
terminative
pausable
still
in mitius
yet
away
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deep freeze
reprieve
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quietus
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demur
end
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put the brakes on
pause
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intermit
knock it off
sist
procrastinate
forestall
leave off
clip
snooze
curtail
cut short
put a pin in
noun
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
- A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
verb
noun
- A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
- A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
verb
- To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
- To bring to a stop.
- To limp; move with a limping gait.
- To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
- To falter.
- To stop marching.
- To stop either temporarily or permanently.
- To cause to discontinue.
- To waver.
noun
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
adv
- with reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation
- despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- without moving or making a sound
adj
- used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion
- not sparkling
verb
adj
- not in physical motion
- marked by absence of sound
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
- free from noticeable current
noun
- a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes)
- (poetic) tranquil silence
- an apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed
- a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation
noun
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
verb
- cease an action temporarily
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
adj
- the complete stoppage of an action
- very tired
- unerringly accurate
- physically inactive
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking resilience or bounce
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- no longer having force or relevance
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- devoid of activity
noun
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
adv
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- Result.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- Money.
- One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- Death.
- The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
verb
noun
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- an open or empty space in or between things
- a narrow opening
- a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks
- a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations
verb
noun
- The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
- A cessation in a flow or activity.
- A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
- A device that stops the flow of a current.
- A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
- Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
- The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
- A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
- A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
adj
noun
- an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
- the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
- fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level
verb
- stop moving or become immobilized
- change to ice
- be cold
- cause to freeze
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- be very cold, below the freezing point
- change from a liquid to a solid when cold
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- anesthetize by cold
- suddenly behave coldly and formally
adj
- Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
- Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- Voiced; sonant; lenis.
- Voiceless.
- Gentle.
- Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
- Easily giving way under pressure.
- Emulated with software; not physically real.
- Not likely to cause addiction.
- Not containing alcohol.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- Effeminate.
- Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
- softcore.
- Palatalized.
- Not bright or intense.
- Physically or emotionally weak.
- Foolish.
- Agreeable to the senses.
- Having a slight angle from straight.
- Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- Quiet.
noun
noun
- The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
- An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
- An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
- That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
- The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
- A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
- The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
- The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
- The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
- The act of shutting; a closing.
- A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
noun
- The deactivation of anything.
- Something wildly popular, entertaining, or funny.
- The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO.
- A very attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.
- The deactivation of a particular gene.
- A tournament in which a team or player must beat the opponent in order to progress to the next round.
- A partially punched opening meant for optional later removal.
- A creature engineered with a particular gene deactivated.
- An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print.
- A simple game for two or more players, derived from basketball.
adj
noun
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
verb
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
adv
verb
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To halt something temporarily.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
noun
- The abortion of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.
- I'm going to take a brief time-out from this job.
- A short break in the action of a sport, for substitution, consultation, etc.
- A break from a tense, heated or stressful situation (often enforced, sometimes as a disciplinary measure); a cooling-off period.
adj
- In a state of continuous unremitting action.
- Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
- Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
- Restorative, curative or invigorating.
- Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
- Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
noun
- A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
- Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
- The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
- The triad built on the tonic note.
- Tonic water.
- Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
- A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
verb
- To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
- To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
- To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
- To deprive (with of).
noun
adj
- warranting only temporal punishment
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
verb
noun
adj
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- lesser in scope or effect
- inferior in number or size or amount
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
- not of legal age
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
adv
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- From a place, hence.
- Without restraint.
- In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
- Aside, so as to discard something.
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
- So as to remove or use up something.
- Come away; go away; take away.
- At a stated distance in time or space.
intj
verb
adj
noun
- The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
- The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.
- The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
- An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
- Waste of stuff in preparing to size.
- A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
verb
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- run at a moderately swift pace
- attach with a clip
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
noun
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a sharp slanting blow
verb
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