"prepausal" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "postpausal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre",
        "3": "pausal"
      },
      "expansion": "pre- + pausal",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pre- + pausal",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "prepausal (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with pre-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, David Odden, Bantu Phonology, page 27",
          "text": "In the simple past and hesternal past (57b), there is an added H on the final vowel (which spreads leftward, when prepausal) and causes deletion of preceding Hs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Before a pause in speech."
      ],
      "id": "en-prepausal-en-adj-QipsfVhE",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "pause",
          "pause"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) Before a pause in speech."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prepausal"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "postpausal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre",
        "3": "pausal"
      },
      "expansion": "pre- + pausal",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pre- + pausal",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "prepausal (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with pre-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, David Odden, Bantu Phonology, page 27",
          "text": "In the simple past and hesternal past (57b), there is an added H on the final vowel (which spreads leftward, when prepausal) and causes deletion of preceding Hs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Before a pause in speech."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "pause",
          "pause"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) Before a pause in speech."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prepausal"
}