suspend
to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
to attach so as to allow free movement: to suspend a door on a hinge.
to keep from falling, sinking, forming a deposit, etc., as if by hanging: to suspend solid particles in a liquid.
to hold or keep undetermined; refrain from forming or concluding definitely: to suspend one's judgment.
to defer or postpone: to suspend sentence on a convicted person.
to cause to cease or bring to a stop or stay, usually for a time: to suspend payment.
to cause to cease for a time from operation or effect, as a law, rule, privilege, service, or the like: to suspend ferry service.
to debar, usually for a limited time, from the exercise of an office or function or the enjoyment of a privilege: The student was suspended from school.
to keep in a mood or feeling of expectation or incompleteness; keep waiting in suspense: Finish the story; don't suspend us in midair.
Music. to prolong (a note or tone) into the next chord.
to come to a stop, usually temporarily; cease from operation for a time.
to stop payment; be unable to meet financial obligations.
to hang or be suspended, as from another object: The chandelier suspends from the ceiling.
to be suspended, as in a liquid, gas, etc.
Origin of suspend
1synonym study For suspend
Other words for suspend
Other words from suspend
- sus·pend·i·ble, adjective
- sus·pend·i·bil·i·ty [suh-spen-duh-bil-i-tee], /səˌspɛn dəˈbɪl ɪ ti/, noun
- pre·sus·pend, verb (used with object)
- re·sus·pend, verb
- un·sus·pend·i·ble, adjective
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How to use suspend in a sentence
He was suspended by the league until he agreed to stand for the anthem and was traded after the season to the Sacramento Kings, where his NBA career effectively ended in 1998.
Americans Are Far More Likely To Support Athlete Protests Than They Once Were | Michael Tesler | September 3, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightOther sports followed, just as they did in March when the season was suspended four months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Athletes, from the NBA to tennis stars, are striking to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake | kdunn6 | August 27, 2020 | FortuneSwing states such as Florida and Wisconsin have suspended efforts to send teams to nursing homes to assist with voting.
Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic | by Ryan McCarthy and Jack Gillum | August 26, 2020 | ProPublicaThe status of “suspended” simply means we are waiting for additional information before closing this complaint.
Barrios Makes Dubious Claims on Investigations Into His Spending | Jesse Marx | August 25, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoFaulconer and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo are asking the appellate court to suspend that order to prevent the companies from following through on their threats to pull out of California if forced to comply.
One of the clever things the Nazis did in the last days of the Weimar Republic was suspend freedom of the press.
How much can we suspend belief to keep convinced of their innocence?
ASKY did suspend all service to Liberia and to Sierra Leone, which also has reported numerous Ebola cases.
‘He Could Have Brought Ebola Here’: Minnesota Widow on Her Husband | Michael Daly | July 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUpdate: Late this afternoon, ESPN announced that they will suspend Stephen A. Smith for one week from First Take and ESPN Radio.
After failing to secure the nomination, he eventually suspended his campaign—but he did not suspend his political apparatus.
At a critical moment I might find myself compelled to suspend operations until the arrival of drafts from England.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThe sections, the tribunals, the clubs were to suspend their sittings, that the public attention might not be distracted.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottIn hanging it out on a line do not suspend it in festoons, but spread it along the line straight and lengthways.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyTruth is a cause; it produces necessarily its effect when its impulse is not interrupted by causes which suspend its effects.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean MeslierOne knock was to suspend work, two to proceed, and three to come out.
British Dictionary definitions for suspend
/ (səˈspɛnd) /
(tr) to hang from above so as to permit free movement
(tr; passive) to cause to remain floating or hanging: a cloud of smoke was suspended over the town
(tr) to render inoperative or cause to cease, esp temporarily: to suspend interest payments
(tr) to hold in abeyance; postpone action on: to suspend a decision
(tr) to debar temporarily from privilege, office, etc, as a punishment
(tr) chem to cause (particles) to be held in suspension in a fluid
(tr) music to continue (a note) until the next chord is sounded, with which it usually forms a dissonance: See suspension (def. 11)
(intr) to cease payment, as from incapacity to meet financial obligations
(tr) obsolete to put or keep in a state of anxiety or wonder
(intr) obsolete to be attached from above
Origin of suspend
1Derived forms of suspend
- suspendible or suspensible, adjective
- suspendibility, noun
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