英语词汇“suspend”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	suspend
释义	sus·pend \səˈspend\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English suspenden, from Old French suspendre to hang up, interrupt, from Latin suspendere, from sus- (variant of sub- up) + pendere to cause to hang, weigh — more at sub-, pendant *transitive verb* 1. : to debar or cause to withdraw temporarily from any privilege, office, or function : subject to suspension < suspend a student from school for disciplinary reasons > < suspend a member of a club > < was suspended from the army for a year — H.E.Scudder > < condemned him and suspended him from the ministry — A.C.McGiffert > 2. a. : to cause (as an action, process, practice, use) to cease for a time : stop temporarily < suspend publication of a magazine > < suspend bus service > sometimes : to stop permanently : discontinue b. : stay < suspend a hearing > c. : to set aside or make temporarily inoperative < ready and able to suspend their personal values for the sake of magically collective ones — E.H.Erikson > < credit controls were relaxed and suspended — C.L.James > < not a detached period in which the moral standards he adheres to at home can be temporarily suspended — Scott Hershey & Harry Tennant > < article 140 provided that the constitutional court might suspend laws which violated the constitution — C.J.Friedrich > < the general suspended constitutional guarantees for forty-five days — Current Biography > d. : to cause to be intermitted or interrupted (as in motion or execution) < they suspended their oars to listen > 3. : to defer till later : postpone; usually : to withhold for a time on specified conditions < suspend sentence on a convicted man > 4. : to hold in an undetermined or undecided state awaiting fuller information < suspend judgment until further knowledge is attainable — M.R.Cohen > < you suspend both belief and disbelief — T.S.Eliot > < expression was suspended as she sought his mood, to know what to conform to — Louis Auchincloss > 5. a. : hang < suspending his linen to dry on the frame of the wagon — Van Wyck Brooks > < the garment of primitive man was usually a simple robe that covered the body and was suspended from the shoulders — Morris Fishbein > < suspended from his neck with a medallion — R.H.Brown > < the exterior walls instead of supporting the roof, are suspended from it — American Fabrics > especially : to hang so as to be free on all sides except at the point of support : cause to depend < suspend a ball by a thread > < suspend a chandelier from a ceiling > b. : to cause to be upheld or to be kept from falling or sinking by some invisible support (as buoyancy) < dust suspended in the air > < particles suspended in water > c. : to support (the upper part of a vehicle) on the wheels or axles by springs or other devices 6. : to hold riveted in attention : keep fixed or lost (as in wonder or contemplation) < man … is forever suspended in a floating world of action and contemplation — Richard Eberhart > 7. : to keep waiting in suspense or indecision 8. : to make contingent or dependent on or upon : condition 9. : to hold (a musical note or tone) over into the following chord *intransitive verb* 1. : to cease temporarily from operation or activity < the magazine suspended > < the school suspended for lack of finances > 2. : to stop payment or fail to meet obligations or engagements — used of a business or a bank 3. obsolete a. : to suspend judgment b. : to have an apprehension or a suspicion 4. a. : hang < baleen plates suspending from the upper jaw — Alaska Sportsman > b. : to become held in suspension < fine particles that suspend readily in water > Synonyms: see defer, exclude • - suspend payments
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