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sus⋅pend

[suh-spend]

–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.	to 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.	Music. 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.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME suspenden < L suspendere to hang up, equiv. to sus- sus- + pendere (transit.) to hang (see pend, suspense )

Related forms:

sus⋅pend⋅i⋅ble, adjective

sus⋅pend⋅i⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun

Synonyms:
6. hold up, intermit. See interrupt.

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