| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sus·pend |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s -sp nd |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. 2. To cause to stop for a period; interrupt: suspended the trial. 3a. To hold in abeyance; defer: suspend judgment. See synonyms at defer1. b. To render temporarily ineffective: suspend a jail sentence; suspend all parking regulations. 4. To hang so as to allow free movement: suspended the mobile from the ceiling. 5. To support or keep from falling without apparent attachment, as by buoyancy: suspend oneself in the water. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To cease for a period; delay. 2. To fail to make payments or meet obligations. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English suspenden, from Old French suspendre, from Latin suspendere : sub-, from below; see sub– + pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Appendix I.
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