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verb (used with object)
1.
to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
2.
to attach so as to allow free movement: to suspend a door on a hinge.
3.
to keep from falling, sinking, forming a deposit, etc., as if by hanging: to suspend solid particles in a liquid.
4.
to hold or keep undetermined; refrain from forming or concluding definitely: to suspend one's judgment.
5.
EXPANDto defer or postpone: to suspend sentence on a convicted person.
6.
to cause to cease or bring to a stop or stay, usually for a time: to suspend payment.
7.
to cause to cease for a time from operation or effect, as a law, rule, privilege, service, or the like: to suspend ferry service.
8.
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.
9.
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.
COLLAPSEMusic. to prolong (a note or tone) into the next chord.
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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Suspended
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English suspenden < Latin suspendere to hang up, equivalent to sus- sus- + pendere (transitive) to hang (see pend, suspense)
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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Example Sentences
- New regulations were postponed, and federal audits and program reviews were suspended.
- Water suspended the soot, keeping the ink runny enough to write with.
- Credit card processing has been suspended in the food court.
WordNet
| suspended | |
adjective | |
| (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; "suspended matter such as silt or mud..."; "dust particles suspended in the air"; "droplets in suspension in a gas" |
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