[ UK /səspˈɛnd/ ]
[ US /səˈspɛnd/ ]
VERB
  1. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
  2. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
    Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
  3. cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
    suspend the particles
  4. hang freely
    The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
  5. make inoperative or stop
    suspend payments on the loan
  6. render temporarily ineffective
    the prison sentence was suspended
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How To Use suspend In A Sentence

  • The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
  • The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs.
  • The whole project is in suspended animation while we wait for permission to proceed.
  • The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
  • With three players cup-tied, one suspended and another released this month, there will be four familiar names missing, and some unfamiliar ones on the bench.
  • The Korea Skating Union suspended Lee Jung-su and Kwak Yoon-gy from all competitions until April 2013 as punishment for allegedly helping to fix competitions and national team tryouts in March, KSU official Kim Tae-wan said. Two South Korean Olympic medalists get 3-year skating ban
  • The IP pellet was resuspended in final wash buffer and aliquoted for subsequent biochemical analyses.
  • They occur when a layer of unconsolidated sediment is fluidized and transport of fluid and suspended grains takes place through overlying sediment to the sediment-water interface.
  • In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
  • And he warned Teheran it faces ever increasing sanctions if it refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment.
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