take ten

Strongest match

• meantime

Strong matches

• breach
• break
• breather
• cutoff
• downtime
• gap
• hiatus
• interlude
• interregnum
• interruption
• lacuna
• layoff
• letup
• meanwhile
• pause
• time
• time-out

Weak matches

• breathing spell
• coffee break

Weak matches

• breathe
• ease off
• mellow out
• recuperate
• relax
• rest
• sit down
• slow down
• stop for a breath
• take a break
• wind down

Strongest matches

• lie down
• recline
• sit back
• take it easy
• unwind

Weak matches

• breathe easy
• calm down
• catch one's breath
• chill out
• collect oneself
• compose oneself
• cool off
• feel at home
• hang loose
• loosen up
• make oneself at home
• mellow out
• put one's feet up
• rest
• settle back
• sit around
• take a break
• take a breather
• take a load off
• wind down

Strongest matches

• hesitate
• interrupt
• shake
• waver

Strong matches

• cease
• deliberate
• desist
• discontinue
• drop
• halt
• reflect
• rest
• sideline
• suspend

Weak matches

• break it up
• call time
• catch one's breath
• come to standstill
• hold back
• put on hold
• stop briefly
• take a break
• take a breather
• take five
• think twice

Strongest matches

• adjourn
• break off
• break up
• dissolve
• terminate

Strong matches

• drop
• pigeonhole
• prorogue
• rise
• shake
• sideline

Weak matches

• call time
• drop it
• prorogate
• put on hold
• take a break
• take a breather
• take five

Strongest matches

• calm
• lie down
• loosen up
• recline
• sit back
• soften
• unwind

Strong matches

• laze
• repose
• rest
• tranquilize
• unbend
• unlax

Weak matches

• breathe easy
• calm down
• collect oneself
• compose oneself
• cool off
• ease off
• feel at home
• hang loose
• knock off
• let oneself go
• make oneself at home
• put one's feet up
• settle back
• simmer down
• sit around
• stop work
• take a break
• take a breather
• take it easy
• take one's time
• take time out

Strongest matches

• breathe
• lean
• lie down
• relax
• sit down
• stretch out

Strong matches

• doze
• dream
• drowse
• idle
• laze
• loaf
• loll
• lounge
• nap
• nod
• recline
• repose
• slack
• slacken
• slumber
• snooze
• spell
• unbend
• unlax
• unwind

Weak matches

• be at ease
• be comfortable
• compose oneself
• ease off
• ease up
• let down
• let up
• lie by
• lie still
• put feet up
• refresh oneself
• slack off
• take a break
• take a nap
• take five
• take it easy
• take life easy
• take time out
• wind down