suspend

[ suh-spend ]

/ səˈspɛnd /

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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.

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.

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.

Origin of suspend

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

SYNONYMS FOR suspend

6 hold up, intermit. See interrupt.

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OTHER WORDS FROM suspend

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 self-sus·pend·ed, adjective un·sus·pend·ed, adjective un·sus·pend·i·ble, adjective

Words nearby suspend

susiana, susie, suslik, suslov, suspect, suspend, suspended animation, suspended sentence, suspender, suspender belt, suspense

Example sentences from the Web for suspend

One of the clever things the Nazis did in the last days of the Weimar Republic was suspend freedom of the press.

Japan’s Nasty Nazi-ish Elections |Jake Adelstein |December 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
How much can we suspend belief to keep convinced of their innocence?

Amanda Knox: A Mother’s Obsession |Nina Darnton |November 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
ASKY did suspend all service to Liberia and to Sierra Leone, which also has reported numerous Ebola cases.

‘He Could Have Brought Ebola Here’: Minnesota Widow on Her Husband |Michael Daly |July 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Update: Late this afternoon, ESPN announced that they will suspend Stephen A. Smith for one week from First Take and ESPN Radio.

ESPN: The Worldwide Leader in Pricks |Marlow Stern |July 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

After failing to secure the nomination, he eventually suspended his campaign—but he did not suspend his political apparatus.

Rand Paul’s Daddy Issues |Olivia Nuzzi |July 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Now, the probation officer is trying to get the judge to suspend sentence.

Once Upon A Time |Richard Harding Davis
It won't take us long to get your status, pay your fine, or get the judge to suspend your sentence.

David Lannarck, Midget |George S. Harney
We warned the village policeman at the far end of the street that he might have to suspend traffic again.

A Diversity of Creatures |Rudyard Kipling
The Russians might as well attempt to suspend a first-rate line-of-battle ship with all its guns and stores.

With the World's Great Travellers, Volume IV |Various
Kitty's youth would shore up the debacle, suspend it indefinitely.

The Drums Of Jeopardy |Harold MacGrath

British Dictionary definitions for suspend

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 (def. 11)

(intr) to cease payment, as from incapacity to meet financial obligations

(tr) obsolete to put or keep in a state of anxiety or wonder

(intr) obsolete to be attached from above

Derived forms of suspend

suspendible or suspensible, adjective suspendibility, noun

Word Origin for suspend

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

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