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suspend

[suh-spend]

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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.

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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.

10.

Music. to prolong (a note or tone) into the next chord.

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verb (used without object)

11.

to come to a stop, usually temporarily; cease from operation for a time.

12.

to stop payment; be unable to meet financial obligations.

13.

to hang or be suspended, as from another object: The chandelier suspends from the ceiling.

14.

to be suspended, as in a liquid, gas, etc.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English suspenden < Latin suspendere to hang up, equivalent to sus- sus- + pendere (transitive) to hang (see pend, suspense)

Related forms

sus·pend·i·ble, adjective

sus·pend·i·bil·i·ty, noun

non·sus·pend·ed, adjective

pre·sus·pend, verb (used with object)

re·sus·pend, verb

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self-sus·pend·ed, adjective

un·sus·pend·ed, adjective

un·sus·pend·i·ble, adjective

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Synonyms
6. hold up, intermit. See interrupt.

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Example Sentences

Once you're logged in, you can manage your subscription, suspend your subscription while you're on vacation or pay bills online.

Colleges already have the authority to suspend or expel students for the safety of others.

It will probably use the legal fiddle it used six weeks ago and suspend it for a further six weeks.

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Once you're logged in, you can manage your subscription, suspend your subscription while you're on vacation or pay bills online.

Colleges already have the authority to suspend or expel students for the safety of others.

It will probably use the legal fiddle it used six weeks ago and suspend it for a further six weeks.

Halloween is the one holiday that asks people to suspend disbelief.

Physicists suspend an ion in space to act as a minuscule stylus.

For a festive ambience, hang little white string lights from arbors or suspend an outdoor chandelier over a patio table.

Levine wanted the technical content to sound real, so it would suspend the disbelief of his audience.

I've seen professors suspend long-running feuds to militate against evil administrators or tyrannical chairs.

Nearly a quarter of the resorts had to suspend operations.

After a minute or two, it flew to the opposing team's goal, where it continued to suspend play for another five minutes.

We should attempt to suspend as much noisy activity in our oceans for a year or two and observe the effect.

First step: figuring out how to suspend a head of cabbage in mid-air.

The other option would be to suspend people from wires to simulate apparent weightlessness.

When the college decided to suspend the student, it appears to have appointed his parents as the de facto responsible party.

These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon with hundreds of eggs.

It can suspend more things in the air for longer periods of time than before.

Suspend the loop half-way down from the top border of the rectangle.

It sits low within the bag and does not have a hanger from which to suspend a camelback bladder.

So he hammered a nail into the ceiling, attached a string, and used it to suspend his phone in the signal's sweet spot.

Internet and suspend the fundamental laws of information.

BP also said it would suspend dividend payments to shareholders.

Michigan has announced it will temporarily suspend part of its student loan program as it is unable to raise the funds.

The country suffers security threats that would provide many a government with the excuse to suspend elections.

It might feel comforting to sink into its leathery depths, or to suspend yourself on a futuristic, breathable.

Russia said it would suspend its obligations under a cold war-era arms control treaty over a missile shield plan.

Many hedge funds are likely to suspend dealings with these firms while details of the investigation are sorted out.

Ya'll have done a marvelous job in allowing us to suspend disbelief and enter a world outside our own individual realities.

Give hanging lights a festive kick with blue tea candles, then suspend them by replacing their hanging chains with red and.

At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules.

Tyrants will always point to problems and say there is a need to suspend the ordinary rules.

He has rebuffed calls to suspend the chief detective, repeating that he will not meddle in inter-agency disputes.

So too, it is not possible for a craft to suspend itself in midair without the use of.

Then there are the rules that are more annoying because the bar at which one has to suspend disbelief is raised even higher.

Suspend disbelief for a moment and imagine that you have agreed, as a secret agent in some confidential military.

Sure, you can suspend a bridge with metal rods and mend your torn clothes with staples.

It doesn't mean you have to suspend your opinion based on the evidence at hand.

Look for one with a locking lid and a hook so you can suspend it from a tripod over a fire.

Plus, you have to get there early, or wait for the thing to come out of suspend.

Wrap the steak in one layer of paper towels, and suspend it over a tray in the refrigerator.

Harvard-Westlake did not suspend or expel any of the students who admitted posting the threats.

When you write a screenplay, you need to create a character that people suspend their disbelief for.

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World English Dictionary

suspend (səˈspɛnd)

—vb
1.	(tr) to hang from above so as to permit free movement
2.	(tr; passive) to cause to remain floating or hanging: a cloud of smoke was suspended over the town
3.	(tr) to render inoperative or cause to cease, esp temporarily: to suspend interest payments
4.	(tr) to hold in abeyance; postpone action on: to suspend a decision
5.	(tr) to debar temporarily from privilege, office, etc, as a punishment
6.	(tr) chem to cause (particles) to be held in suspension in a fluid
7.	(tr) music See suspension to continue (a note) until the next chord is sounded, with which it usually forms a dissonance
8.	(intr) to cease payment, as from incapacity to meet financial obligations
9.	obsolete (tr) to put or keep in a state of anxiety or wonder
10.	obsolete (intr) to be attached from above

[C13: from Latin suspendere from sub- + pendere to hang]

sus'pendible

—*adj*

sus'pensible

—*adj*

suspendi'bility

—n

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Word Origin & History

suspend

late 13c., "to bar or exclude temporarily from some function or privilege, to cause to cease for a time," from O.Fr. suspendre, from L. suspendere "to hang, stop," from sub "up from under" + pendere "cause to hang, weigh" (see pendant). The lit. sense of "to cause to hang

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by a support from above" is recorded from mid-15c. Suspenders is attested from 1810, Amer.Eng. Suspended animation first recorded 1795.

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"Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope."

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