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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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Suspending
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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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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
EXPANDby 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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