Suspend
verb
To stop something for a while.
The teacher decided to suspend the class due to the loud noise outside.
Often appears as...
- suspend class
- suspend meeting
verb
To hang something from somewhere.
Christmas lights were suspended from the ceiling.
Often appears as...
- suspend from the ceiling
- suspend in mid-air
verb
To temporarily remove somebody from a job or from school as a punishment.
He was suspended from school for cheating in the exam.
Often appears as...
- suspend from school
- suspend from work
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To officially delay or stop an opera.
They had to suspend the match due to heavy rain.
Often appears as...
- suspend the match
- suspend the event
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Technical
verb
To make something such as a judgment or belief uncertain or doubtful.
The recent discoveries suspend our previous understanding of the universe.
Often appears as...
- suspend belief
- suspend judgment
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Formal
Academic
verb
To stop something for a while.
The teacher decided to suspend the class due to the loud noise outside.
Often appears as...
- suspend class
- suspend meeting
verb
To hang something from somewhere.
Christmas lights were suspended from the ceiling.
Often appears as...
- suspend from the ceiling
- suspend in mid-air
verb
To temporarily remove somebody from a job or from school as a punishment.
He was suspended from school for cheating in the exam.
Often appears as...
- suspend from school
- suspend from work
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To officially delay or stop an opera.
They had to suspend the match due to heavy rain.
Often appears as...
- suspend the match
- suspend the event
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To make something such as a judgment or belief uncertain or doubtful.
The recent discoveries suspend our previous understanding of the universe.
Often appears as...
- suspend belief
- suspend judgment
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Temporary Pause
Use 'suspend' to indicate a break in activity with the intention of resuming later.
The game was suspended until the storm passed.
Pro Tip 2/2Impersonal Situations
'Suspend' often relates to processes or events rather than personal actions.
Online registration is suspended till midnight for maintenance.
Pro Tip 1/2Temporary Pause
Use 'suspend' to indicate a break in activity with the intention of resuming later.
The game was suspended until the storm passed.
Pro Tip 2/2Impersonal Situations
'Suspend' often relates to processes or events rather than personal actions.
Online registration is suspended till midnight for maintenance.
Pro Tip 1/2Temporary Pause
Use 'suspend' to indicate a break in activity with the intention of resuming later.
The game was suspended until the storm passed.
Pro Tip 2/2Impersonal Situations
'Suspend' often relates to processes or events rather than personal actions.
Online registration is suspended till midnight for maintenance.
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What I learned at...
he said have been he could have been in a gold gilt room with a chair and you know like I personally thought he should be suspended in the air over the Sistine Chapel like right in between God and Adam and the stark but you know I come from theater so that's my idea but um my
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Why should you read...
While Kafka often seems suspended in strangeness, there’s a tenderness and integrity at the heart of his mission that keeps him moving forward. Gradually he comes to accept his inner confusion. In the end, his experience echoes the the deeper you go, the more you find.
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How We Can Make the...
Watch the news every day and the world seems to be going backwards, not forwards. And let's be it's pretty easy to be skeptical about grand announcements coming out of the UN. But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment.
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Fossils 101 PIPE National...
in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within. This process creates a biologically inert tomb
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Making waves: The power...
Let's suspend the laws of physics for a moment, and pretend that your molecular self can plunge deep down into the water column. In these colder depths, the comparative lack of solar warmth makes water molecules sluggish,
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My stroke of insight PIPE...
When I woke later that afternoon, I was shocked to discover that I was still alive. When I felt my spirit surrender, I said goodbye to my life. And my mind was now suspended between two very opposite planes of reality.
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How science fiction can...
In works that often combine entertainment and social commentary, we are invited to suspend our disbelief and consider the consequences of radical shifts in familiar and deeply engrained institutions. In this sense,
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Mark Roth: Suspended...
These creatures are some of the most immortal life forms on our planet, and they tend to spend most of their time in suspended animation. Bacterial spores are thought now by scientists to exist as individual cells
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What you can do with an...
So to hold their food and eat it too, an even deeper gill arch evolved into a secondary set of jaws. Unlike oral jaws connected by a bone joint, these pharyngeal jaws were suspended in muscle,
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Life of Insects PIPE...
plant and insect life is suspended but
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What I learned at...
he said have been he could have been in a gold gilt room with a chair and you know like I personally thought he should be suspended in the air over the Sistine Chapel like right in between God and Adam and the stark but you know I come from theater so that's my idea but um my
Video examples
Why should you read...
While Kafka often seems suspended in strangeness, there’s a tenderness and integrity at the heart of his mission that keeps him moving forward. Gradually he comes to accept his inner confusion. In the end, his experience echoes the the deeper you go, the more you find.
Video examples
How We Can Make the...
Watch the news every day and the world seems to be going backwards, not forwards. And let's be it's pretty easy to be skeptical about grand announcements coming out of the UN. But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment.
Video examples
Fossils 101 PIPE National...
in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within. This process creates a biologically inert tomb
Video examples
Making waves: The power...
Let's suspend the laws of physics for a moment, and pretend that your molecular self can plunge deep down into the water column. In these colder depths, the comparative lack of solar warmth makes water molecules sluggish,
Video examples
My stroke of insight PIPE...
When I woke later that afternoon, I was shocked to discover that I was still alive. When I felt my spirit surrender, I said goodbye to my life. And my mind was now suspended between two very opposite planes of reality.
Video examples
How science fiction can...
In works that often combine entertainment and social commentary, we are invited to suspend our disbelief and consider the consequences of radical shifts in familiar and deeply engrained institutions. In this sense,
Video examples
Mark Roth: Suspended...
These creatures are some of the most immortal life forms on our planet, and they tend to spend most of their time in suspended animation. Bacterial spores are thought now by scientists to exist as individual cells
Video examples
What you can do with an...
So to hold their food and eat it too, an even deeper gill arch evolved into a secondary set of jaws. Unlike oral jaws connected by a bone joint, these pharyngeal jaws were suspended in muscle,
Video examples
Life of Insects PIPE...
plant and insect life is suspended but
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Claudia Winkleman
English Entertainer
If you meet a girl who says: 'Darling, what do you mean? Of course I wear suspenders. I've worn them all my life. I think tights are for old people,' then know this: she's desperate to have kids, she wants you and her to live in the same house as her mum, she never wants to go out and she just wants to lie on your chest for the next 15 years.
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Billy Beane
American Athlete
Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
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Bev Perdue
American Politician
I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.
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Gary Payton
American Athlete
I got suspended from school once, and my dad came to the school and whooped me in front of everyone. I didn't want that to happen again, didn't want to be embarrassed like that. The guys that I ran with, they respected that and respected my dad too.
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Harry Belafonte
American Musician
I don't think soldiers should be anywhere in the world. I mean, that is a moral and a basic philosophy. I think that the only way to end wars is to have no military and to find other ways in which - I think we should suspend all nuclear weapons.
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Graeme Murphy
Australian Dancer
But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.
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LeBron James
American Basketball Player
I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.
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George Steinbrenner
American Businessman
I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?
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Rupert Penry-Jones
English Actor
The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.
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Georginio Wijnaldum
Dutch Athlete
It's always a blow for a team if important players get injured or suspended.
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Claudia Winkleman
English Entertainer
If you meet a girl who says: 'Darling, what do you mean? Of course I wear suspenders. I've worn them all my life. I think tights are for old people,' then know this: she's desperate to have kids, she wants you and her to live in the same house as her mum, she never wants to go out and she just wants to lie on your chest for the next 15 years.
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Billy Beane
American Athlete
Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
Quote examples
Bev Perdue
American Politician
I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.
Quote examples
Gary Payton
American Athlete
I got suspended from school once, and my dad came to the school and whooped me in front of everyone. I didn't want that to happen again, didn't want to be embarrassed like that. The guys that I ran with, they respected that and respected my dad too.
Quote examples
Harry Belafonte
American Musician
I don't think soldiers should be anywhere in the world. I mean, that is a moral and a basic philosophy. I think that the only way to end wars is to have no military and to find other ways in which - I think we should suspend all nuclear weapons.
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Graeme Murphy
Australian Dancer
But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.
Quote examples
LeBron James
American Basketball Player
I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.
Quote examples
George Steinbrenner
American Businessman
I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?
Quote examples
Rupert Penry-Jones
English Actor
The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.
Quote examples
Georginio Wijnaldum
Dutch Athlete
It's always a blow for a team if important players get injured or suspended.
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