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Grammar : Adj
Spell : suh-spend
Phonetic Transcription : səˈspɛnd



Définition of suspended

Origin :
  • late 13c., "to bar or exclude temporarily from some function or privilege, to cause to cease for a time," from Old French suspendre, from Latin suspendere "to hang, stop," from sub "up from under" (see sub-) + pendere "cause to hang, weigh" (see pendant). The literal sense of "to cause to hang by a support from above" is recorded from mid-15c. Suspenders is attested from 1810, American English. Suspended animation first recorded 1795.
  • adj pensile
  • adj postponed
Example sentences :
  • The coverlet dropped from her breast; her hand was suspended with stiff fingers.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Could she ever pardon herself for this delay, when Mordecai is suspended?
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • To be sure my cousin would have suspended his judgment till he could have arrived.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • My mind has recovered in some degree its shaken and suspended faculties.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • He appeared to have suspended his labours, and to be occupied in thought.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Holding him suspended with one hand, with the other hand he proceeded to give him a beating.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • Still, still the hunter pursued; he suspended not the velocity of his course.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • The Gods have suspended their thunder over the head of the apostate.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • They were suspended by buoys about thirty feet below the surface of the water.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
  • At that moment the wind dropped, and the combatants were suspended in mid-air.
  • Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 » by Various

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