Definition of Suspend

Suspend

To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.

To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.

To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.

To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.

To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).

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Suspend Quotations

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
Rex Stout

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
John Lubbock

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.
Graeme Murphy

In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
Jim Gerlach

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
Fred Saberhagen

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.
Richard Dean Anderson

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.
Billy Sheehan

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Ernest Dimnet

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Suspend Translations

suspend in French is suspendez, suspendons, suspendent, suspends

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