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suspend English

Meaning suspend meaning

What does suspend mean?
Definitions in simple English

suspend Verb

— If you suspend something, you stop it for a time. The army suspended all operations in the north until the weather has changed. The conversation was temporarily suspended while everyone watched the TV. — If you suspend someone from a job or from school, you stop them from going for a time. Crang was suspended for five games for punching another player. — If you suspend an object, you attach it above and hang it down. Two lamps were suspended above the room and gave off a gentle light.

suspend

— verb hang freely The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them — verb cause to be held in suspension in a fluid suspend the particles — verb bar temporarily; from school, office, etc — verb (= freeze) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it Suspend the aid to the war-torn country — verb make inoperative or stop suspend payments on the loan — verb render temporarily ineffective the prison sentence was suspended

Synonyms suspend synonyms

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suspend English » English

hang hang up stop dangle postpone cease interrupt pause discontinue delay defer adjourn put off intermit halt break off swing hand break abort suspension slouch sling set aside quit procrastinate lift interruption intercept hook hoist hanging-up hanging hang down freeze dismiss disconnect debar cut short cut off cut attach append worry wire wear wash out wait awhile trice time-out

Topics suspend topics

What do people use suspend to talk about?
Language and thought Teach

School
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction Lift

Hang
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Stop something

Conjugation suspend conjugation

How do you conjugate suspend?

suspend · verb

Examples suspend examples

How do I use suspend in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I'm going to suspend my judgment until the movie is over.

Movie subtitles

I suspend sentence on condition that you leave the city within 24 hours.
I sentence you to 31 days in the city jail but I'll suspend 30 days of that sentence if you give me your word that as soon as you get out tomorrow you'll go back to your folks in Kansas.
However, I shall suspend sentence.
The Senator will please suspend until order is restored in the chamber.
But taking into consideration the motive which actuated both misdemeanors I hereby suspend sentence.
Tomorrow, the committee will decide whether to suspend or expel you idiots.
To be fair to the majority, the school decided to suspend you for a while.
If this keeps up, we'll have to suspend the international ship routes.
You gonna pay up, Orry, or you want we should suspend our service?
You can suspend the state of emergency.
If everything is in order, the lieutenant will suspend the punishment.
They'll suspend you and put you in jail with that major of yours.
No wonder you decided to suspend her piano lessons.
Oh, no, she killed one of us, and must die, regardless. We will go to the king, and force him to suspend sanctuary.
I'll suspend you for that!
How did you suspend them?
First, you'll go to that tele-viewer screen of yours and give orders to suspend all work on the beta disintegrator.
Suspend the delivery and get to work.
If I had my way, I'd suspend the lot of you.
I request to shortly suspend the hearing.
All right. I'll have the croupier suspend the table limit while you're playing.
My assistant and I must leave for an important engagement. that I can neither suspend nor delay.
May I request you to suspend your hostilities for a moment?
Why not suspend him altogether?
Yet you had failed to suspend him from duty, or even to record the incident in the ship's log.
Thereby you can suspend yourself in space with absolute safety.
I just had orders from Paris to suspend the investigation.
Plenty of people on Earth think that we should suspend the space programme.
I have adjusted it so that it will suspend its effects after a few moments and allow us time to escape.
They fill it with candies, nuts, fruits and toys and suspend it from a tree.
Well, in Rome, they decided to suspend the whole thing because it wasn't necessary.
They're going to suspend it, pending a full review of the project.

News and current affairs

Then, in November 2004, in negotiations with European representatives, Iran agreed to suspend nuclear enrichment.
But undermining his domestic standing by limiting Iran's revenues stands a better chance of succeeding than diplomatic efforts to persuade the regime to suspend uranium enrichment voluntarily, or coercive sanctions.
They introduced a safety clause allowing a country to suspend the deficit ceiling in case of serious recession, but they went on to define a serious recession in such a way as to make such a suspension implausible in practice.
The British government tried to wriggle out of taking sides on the implications of the French and Dutch votes by saying that it would suspend its own plans for a referendum, but not cancel it outright.
Syriza has also promised to repeal labor-market liberalization and suspend privatization.
Japan, under mounting pressure, announced that it would suspend the plan for a year or two.
In recent weeks, major US technology companies, including Google and Facebook, have been accused of aggressively lobbying the European Parliament to suspend plans to intensify privacy rules in the EU.
Talks among representatives of Shia, Wahhabi-Ismaili, and other sects within the National Dialogue were recently televised, but this was pure theater of reform, nothing more, and the Saudi population is no longer willing to suspend its disbelief.
Neither Blix nor al-Baradei was willing to suspend the inspections until Iraq provides forthright, open cooperation.
The best outcome would be one in which Iran was persuaded to freeze or suspend its nuclear efforts or, better yet, give up an independent capability to enrich uranium.
In Europe, the Kremlin has been able to pursue a successful divide-and-rule strategy, particularly in view of Hungary's decision to suspend gas flows to Ukraine.
Medvedev's decision to suspend construction of a highway through the Khimki forest near Moscow in the face of widespread civic protest was important.
The EU decision comes at a time when NATO has also sought to renew its engagement with Russia after the Georgia conflict led both parties to suspend many joint programs.
But is it right to suspend the democratic interplay of government and opposition in order to solve major problems?
The US has threatened to veto the resolution in the Security Council, and the US Congress has threatened to suspend American aid to the Palestinian Authority.
The link between currencies and gold was irrevocably broken in 1971, when US President Richard Nixon decided to suspend the convertibility of dollars into gold for central banks.
It is becoming increasingly clear that if Greece proceeds to unilateral action - whether by repealing unpopular austerity laws or renouncing the loan agreement itself - the eurozone will suspend disbursement of the loan.
For its part, Japan should suspend its plan to buy the islands, an effort that is certain to make matters worse if it goes ahead.
This might reflect temporary factors, like the Japanese tsunami, which disrupted supply chains and caused some factories to suspend operations.
It is a great pity that formal negotiations with Iran have been stalled since 2005 amid Western demands that Iran suspend all of its enrichment-related activities.
One is Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision, announced in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month, to suspend his threat to launch unilateral military action against Iran's nuclear installations.
For its part, the Security Council would suspend all its deliberations related to the Iranian nuclear program.
There are no policies that could suspend the operation of all these linkages without damaging longer-term growth.

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