Suspend

Definition: Suspend

Suspend

Verb

1. Hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them".

2. Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid, of particles, in chemistry.

3. Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

4. Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country".

5. Make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan".

6. As of a prison sentence.

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Date "suspend" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Note: Suspend \Sus*pend"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Suspended; Suspending.]. (references)

Post & Telecom

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Synonyms: Suspend

Cessation

Intromit, interrupt, suspend, interpel; intermit, remit; put an end to, put a stop to, put a period to; derail; turn off, switch off, power down, deactivate, disconnect; bring to a stand, bring to a standstill; stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent; pull the check-string, pull the plug on.

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Pendency

Suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.

Crosswords: Suspend

French (suspends).

I'm gonna suspend my senses (Die Another Day; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna)

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Books

• Suspend and review program of the General Services Administration's real estate projects, and GSA's plans for changes in real property services as indicated in the National Performance Review : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Groun (reference)

• Aviation Safety: Faas Use of Emergency Orders to Revoke or Suspend Operating Certificates (reference)

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Business

While this in one respect translates into easy market access, it does not suspend normal competitive mechanisms. (references)

It is possible that politicians could suspend (or reverse) the process at any time. Indeed, at the time of writing lawmakers of the National Assembly had determined not to vote on revising the acts required to reform the industry. (references)

According to the Argentine Association of Automotive Dealers (ACARA), the number of vehicles sold in Argentina has fallen sharply since the beginning of 1999 and this had forced several companies to dismiss and/or suspend personnel. (references)

Civil Liberties

Venezuela

However, the Government can suspend the freedom to travel. (references)

Kuwait

It is not used to suspend or shut down existing newspapers. (references)

Tunisia

It also reduced the period of time the Government may suspend a newspaper's publication from 6 to 3 months. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

The president may summon, suspend, or end a legislative session and dissolve Parliament. (references)

Nepal

The king may grant pardons and may suspend, commute, or remit any sentence by any court. (references)

Indonesia

Some mining and oil and gas ventures have been forced to suspend operations as a result of these and related problems. (references)

Human Rights

Nepal

The King also can suspend, commute, or remit any sentence. (references)

Tunisia

Judges and the Government exercised the authority to release prisoners or suspend their sentences, often on conditional parole. (references)

Guatemala

On January 16, the Constitutional Court denied the motions to suspend the case by the defense attorneys for 15 of the suspects. (references)

Minorities

Sri Lanka

While the two main political groupings, the PA and UNP, reached consensus on many aspects of the devolution proposals, when the Government introduced the draft Constitution to Parliament in August 2000 in hopes of passing the measures, it had to suspend debate on the new Constitution due to political opposition. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

It also can suspend a newspaper indefinitely and suspend journalists for up to 2 weeks. (references)

Sudan

In the event of a complaint, it can give a newspaper a warning or suspend it for up to 15 days. (references)

Political Rights

Nepal

However, he may not suspend habeas corpus or the right to form associations. (references)

Kuwait

The Constitution empowers the Amir to suspend its provisions and to rule by decree. (references)

Guinea-Bissau

In November President Yala informed the National Assembly of his ability to suspend it for up to 10 years. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Also, the Government, from time to time, decides to suspend the import of some commodities. (references)

Travel

West Bank

From time to time, the Embassy or Consulate General will temporarily suspend public services as necessary to review its security posture. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

The MOJ announced in 2000 that it would suspend deportation proceedings for illegal residents awaiting back pay. (references)

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Expressions using "suspend": suspend hostilities ♦ suspend message ♦ suspend request ♦ To suspend payment. Additional references.

Ending with "suspend": re-suspend.

Albanian

var (dangle, drape, hang, hang up, hook, rope, string up), pezulloj (adjourn, block, call, cancel, recall), ndërpres (abort, break, break up, call, cease, cut off, desist, discontinue, heckle, intercept, interjaculate, intermit, interrupt, intersect, leave off, punctuate, stop, strangulate), mënjanoj (avert, avoid, deflect, depart, eliminate, elude, leave out, move aside, remove, save, shunt, stave off, store, store up, thrift, translocate, turn aside, uncurtain, ward off), lë pezull, i heq përkohësisht. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), ‏حرم مؤقتا من إمتياز, ‏توقف مؤقتا عن العمل, ‏توقف عن الدفع, ‏تدلى (bag, dangle, droop, fall, flag, flow, loll, lop, sag, swing), ‏علق (annotate, comment, commentate, dangle, gloss, hang, hang up, hinge, pin out, rest, shelve, sling, stop, string up, swing), ‏عطل (cancel, cripple, damage, deactivate, derange, disrupt, foul up, hold up, jam, obstruct, stay), ‏أوقف عن العمل, ‏أجل (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, dignify, esteem, glorify, hold over, honor, honour, look up to, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, rather, refer back, regard, remit, set aside, shelve, stall, table, value, yep, yes), ‏أرجأ تنفيذ حكم. (various references)

Bulgarian 

суспендирам (supersede), спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, trammel, trig, withhold), оставям висящ, отлагам временно (put on the shelf), отлагам (carry over, defer, delay, drive, hold over, lay over, leave over, lie over, postpone, precipitate, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, respite, scrub, shelve, shunt, sidetrack, stay), окачвам (hang, hook), обесвам (be hanged, gibbet, halter, scrag, string up, swing, turn off), провесвам (dangle, hang, loll, sling, swing), преустановявам (cease), прекратявам (cease, discontinue, dismiss, stash, stay, stop, surcease), правя зависим (subordinate), повисвам (droop, hang, hang down). (various references)

Chinese 

輟 (cease, stop), 罷 (cease, dismiss, to finish, to quit, to stop), 暫停 , 暂停 (intermit, Intermitted, Intermitting, suspended, Suspending, timeout, time-out), 挂 (hang), 懸 (hang). (various references)

Czech

suspendovat, zavìsit (hang, hang out, hang up, ring off, sling), zastavit (arrest, call a halt, call off, cease, check, discontinue, draw up, halt, hock, immobilize, pawn, pull back, put in, quit, stay, stem, stop, tackle), prozatím zastavit, přerušit (abort, adjourn, black out, break off, cut off, cut short, discontinue, disrupt, intermit, interrupt, split up, stop, terminate, turn off), odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, reprieve, stay, take off, throw away). (various references)

Danish

suspend-meddelelse, suspendere, opslaemme, ophaenge. (various references)

Dutch

suspenderen, suspend. (various references)

Farsi 

موقتابیکارکردن , معلق کردن , معوق گذاردن (Procrastinate, Table), اندروابودن , اویزان شدن یاکردن . (various references)

Finnish

virantoimituksesta, ottaa pois (take away from, take off, withdraw), lakkauttaa (abolish, discontinue, stop, suppress, withdraw), julistaa kilpailukieltoon, erottaa koulusta (expel from school), "keskeytys toistaiseksi-sanoma. (various references)

French

suspendre. (various references)

German

suspendieren (put away, store), aufhängen (hang, hang up, hanged, hanging, land with, palm off, peg out, peg up, put up, ring off, saddle with, sling, string out, string up, talk into believing, to suspend). (various references)

Greek 

αναστέλλω (abort, adjourn, inhibit). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתלות (hang, hang up, sling, string up), ל�"שעות, ל�"חות (cast away, defer, dismiss, hold off, postpone, repel, set aside), לבטל (abolish, annul, cancel, invalidate, nullify, revoke, set aside, undo). (various references)

Hungarian

felfüggeszt (disestablish, load, to catch up, to inhibit, to leave in abeyance, to stay), felakaszt (hang, hang up, hook up, string up, to halter, to hang up, to hook on, to hook up, to scrag, to truss up). (various references)

Indonesian

menggantungkan (adjourn, hang), menggandulkan, bergandul. (various references)

Italian

sospensione (abeyance, adjournment, cancellation, lay off, stay, suspension), sospendere (hang, interrupt, rusticate, sling, stay), mantenere in sospensione, differire (adjourn, defer, delay, differ, vary), appendere (append, hang, string). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

サイン曲線 (ca et la, commercial jingle, saccharin, sack, sack dress, sacrifice, sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly, saddle, sadism, sadist, sadistic, sado, sadomasochism, Sahara, sanatorium, sanitary, sanitary napkin, sash, Saskatchewan, Satan, satellite, satellite computer, satellite office, satellite station, satellite studio, satin, satisfaction, Saturday night special, Saturn, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, sauna, sax, saxophone, sine curve, sinusoid, skirt with suspender, soccer, soccer coach, sound, sound box, sound business, sound effects, sound logo, sound man, soundinterface, soundtrack, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southern Cross, southpaw, success, success story, sudden death, suggest, suggestion, suspended game, suspenders, suspense, suspense drama, suspension, sustaining program, Thousand Island). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

サスペンド . (various references)

Korean 

중단하십시�". (various references)

Manx

scuirr veih. (various references)

Pig Latin

uspendsay.(various references)

Portuguese

suster (support), suspender (adjourn, cancel, dangle, discontinue, hang, inhibit, intermit, interrupt, lever, lift, paralyse, paralyze, put up, raise, remit, sling, swing), pendurar (append, hang, hang up, hook, swing), deter (abstract, arrest, buttonhole, dam up, detain, deter, hold back, intercept, refrain, resist, restrain, retain, stop), adiar (adjourn, defer, delay, drive, hold over, postpone, put off, respite, shelve, stay, wait, waive). (various references)

Romanian

suspenda (adjourn, hang, stop), sista (cease, stop), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, take up, up, uplift, weigh), exclude (bar, cut, disbar, exclude, excommunicate, expel, oust, preclude, rule out), concedia (boot, discard, discharge, dismiss, drum out, fire, give notice, pay off, put out, retire, sack, shelve, turn off), atârna (beetle, depend, flap, flow, hang, loll, lop, weigh), agãţa (accost, attach, clench, grapple, hang, hook, importune), întrerupe (adjourn, break, break in, break off an engagement, call off, catch, check, cut, discontinue, drop, intermit, interrupt, shut off, stop, switch off), înceta (break, cease, cut, die, discontinue, lift, pass away, stop). (various references)

Russian 

вешать (gib arm, hang), откладывать (adjourn, defer, deposit, hang up, hoard, hold over, lay aside, lay by, leave over, postpone, put aside, put away, put by, put off, put over, reserve, set apart, set aside, set by, shunt, store), привесить, приостанавливать, подвесить (hang up), подвешивать (swing). (various references)

Scottish

croch (hang). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suspendovati, vešati (hang), obustaviti (dismiss, intermit, stop, tie up), obesiti (gibbet, hang, hang up, sling, string, string up, tuck up). (various references)

Spanish

suspensión (abeyance, adjournment, cessation, recess, reprieve, stay, stopping, suspension), suspender (abate, adjourn, ban, call off, catch, discontinue, fail, flunk, hang, hang up, hold up, knock off, lay aside, lay by, lay off, leave off, pip, pluck, reject, stay, stop). (various references)

Swedish

uppskjuta (adjourn, carry over, defer, delay, hold over, launch, lay over, leave over, postpone, put off, remit), suspendera, hänga upp (hang, string), avlysa (call off, cancel). (various references)

Thai

แขวน (swing), เลื่อน, ยกเลิกชั่วคราว. (various references)

Turkish

sonraki akorda uzatmak, uzaklaştırmak (can, cast out, deport, estrange, remove, rout out, rout up, send away, uproot), uzaklaştırma vermek, iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, vacate, void, wash out, write off), görevden uzaklaştırmak, ertelemek (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, hang up, hold off, hold over, lay aside, lay by, lay over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, reprieve, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, stay, table, waive), durdurmak (abort, arrest, baulk, block, bring short, call a halt, call off, cease, check, choke back, choke down, choke off, collar, Crimp, deactivate, discontinue, draw up, give over, halt, hold back, hold up, intercept, intermit, jam, jugulate, lock, paralyse, paralyze, pull in, pull up, put a stop to, shut off, stanch, staunch, stay, stem, still, stop, Stow, suppress), asmak (bunk, drape, drape over, gibbet, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, hang up, neglect, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, swing, truss, wag), askıya almak (hang on board, prop up temporarily, put aside, sling), ara vermek (break, discontinue, have a break, intermit, interrupt, lay off, lay over, lie off, make a pause, pause, prorogue, recess, remit, space, space out, surcease). (various references)

Turkmen 

tдsgenmek (be delayed, linger). (various references)

Ukrainian

тимчасово усувати, вішати (gibbet, halter, hang), відкладати (adjourn, defer, delay, deposit, hold over, lay aside, lay past, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put aside, put over, respite, set apart, set aside, set by, stand over, wait). (various references)

Welsh

crogi (hang). (various references)

suru. (various references)

suspendatur, suspende, suspendebant, suspendent, suspendentes, suspenderant, suspendere, suspenderunt, suspendet, suspendi, suspendimus, suspendit, suspendite, suspensi, suspensis, suspenso, suspensus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "suspend": suspended, suspender, suspendered, suspenders, suspending, suspends. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Suspend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: supen, suspe, susped, suspent, suspond. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sendups, upsends.

-1 letter: pseuds, sendup, spends, upends, upsend.

-2 letters: dunes, dupes, nudes, pends, pseud, puses, sends, sneds, spend, spuds, spued, spues, supes, upend.

-3 letters: dens, dues, dune, duns, dupe, dups, ends, ness, nude, peds, pend, pens, puds, puns, puss, send, sned, sped, spud, spue, spun, suds, sued, sues, suns, supe, sups, unde, used, uses.

-4 letters: den, due.

+1 letter: suspends.

+2 letters: dumpiness, outspends, pudginess, suspended, suspender, underpass, unpressed.

+3 letters: duopsonies, nonplussed, pandanuses, pseudonyms, splendours, splendrous, spodumenes, stupendous, stupidness, superfunds, superminds, suspenders, suspending, underspins, upwardness.

+4 letters: duennaships, dumpinesses, pasquinades, prudishness, pseudomonas, pudginesses, splendorous, studentship, superseding, suspendered, suspicioned, underpasses, unexpressed, unimpressed, unpressured, unprocessed, unprofessed, unrepressed, unsurpassed, unsurprised, unsuspected.

+5 letters: pasturelands, pridefulness, profoundness, prussianised, prussianized, pseudomonads, pseudonymous, pumpkinseeds, purblindness, studentships, stupendously, stupidnesses, superabounds, superhardens, superinduces, superintends, underexposes, unsupervised, uprootedness, upwardnesses.