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suspend
[ suh-spend ]
verb (used with object)
- 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.
Synonyms: discontinue, intermit
- 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.
verb (used without object)
- 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.
suspend
/ səˈspɛnd /
verb
- 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
- intr to cease payment, as from incapacity to meet financial obligations
- obsolete.tr to put or keep in a state of anxiety or wonder
- obsolete.intr to be attached from above
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Derived Forms
- susˌpendiˈbility, noun
- susˈpendible, adjective
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Other Words From
- sus·pend·i·ble adjective
- sus·pend·i·bil·i·ty [s, uh, -spen-d, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], noun
- pre·sus·pend verb (used with object)
- re·sus·pend verb
- un·sus·pend·i·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of suspend1
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Example Sentences
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.
Update: 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.
The sections, the tribunals, the clubs were to suspend their sittings, that the public attention might not be distracted.
In hanging it out on a line do not suspend it in festoons, but spread it along the line straight and lengthways.
Truth is a cause; it produces necessarily its effect when its impulse is not interrupted by causes which suspend its effects.
One knock was to suspend work, two to proceed, and three to come out.
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