suspend
/səsˈpɛnd/ verb B2- To halt something temporarily. · The meeting was suspended for lunch.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event. · to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
- To hang freely; underhang. · to suspend a ball by a thread
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc. · to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
He/she/it suspends · Past suspended · Past participle suspended · -ing form suspending
Verb forms
- Base form
- suspend
- He/she/it
- suspends
- Past
- suspended
- Past participle
- suspended
- -ing form
- suspending
From the library
Morrel obeyed; the count arose, and unlocking a closet with a key suspended from his gold chain, took from it a little silver casket, beautifully carved and chased, the corners of which represented four bending figures, similar to the Caryatides, the forms of women, symbols of the angels aspiring to heaven.
For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and suspending herself from it, pretended to be dead.
His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went.
EVERY MAN, according to an ancient legend, is born into the world with two bags suspended from his neck all bag in front full of his neighbors’ faults, and a large bag behind filled with his own faults.
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