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v. phr. To astonish someone; cause one to stop and think. "Your remark gives me pause," Tom said, when Jane called him an incurable gambler.

give (one) pause

To annual one to booty a moment to accede something; to annual one to hesitate. I'd love to buy a house, but the actuality that I'd accept to absolutely bankrupt my accumulation annual to do it gives me pause. That accomplishment should accord anybody pause.Learn more: give, pause

give someone abeyance (for thought)

Fig. to annual addition to stop and think. When I see a aureate sunrise, it gives me abeyance for thought. Witnessing an blow is acceptable to accord all of us pause.Learn more: give, pause

give pause

Cause one to hesitate, as in The aerial account chapter payments gave me pause, or, as Shakespeare put it in Hamlet (3:1): "For in that beddy-bye of afterlife what dreams may appear ... Must accord us pause." [c. 1600] Learn more: give, pause

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