Usually means: Abruptly stopping speech for effect.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word aposiopesis:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. aposiopesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. aposiopesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aposiopesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aposiopesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aposiopesis: Vocabulary.com
  6. aposiopesis: Wordnik
  7. aposiopesis: Wiktionary
  8. aposiopesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. aposiopesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Aposiopesis, aposiopesis: Dictionary.com
  11. Aposiopesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Aposiopesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. aposiopesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. aposiopesis: Rhymezone
  15. Aposiopesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. aposiopesis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. aposiopesis: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. aposiopesis: FreeDictionary.org
  19. aposiopesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. aposiopesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. aposiopesis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Aposiopesis: World Wide Words
  23. aposiopesis: Merriam-Webster

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. Aposiopesis: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  4. APOSIOPESIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aposiopesis: A Word A Day

(Note: See aposiopeses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (aposiopesis)

noun:  (rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).

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