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- pronunciation:
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spend
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
suspends, suspending, suspended |
| definition 1: |
If you suspend something, you hang it up. We often suspend things from a high place like a ceiling or tree branch.
The piņata was suspended from a big branch of the tree.The electrician suspended the chandelier from the ceiling and made it hang right over the table.- synonyms:
- hang
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| definition 2: |
When people suspend something that is happening, they stop it for a period of time.
The game was suspended until the heavy rain stopped.- synonyms:
- interrupt
- similar words:
- arrest, cease, check, delay, end, halt, quit, stall, stop
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| definition 3: |
If a school principal suspends a student, they don't let the student come to school for some period of time because of some bad thing that the student did. Being suspended is a kind of punishment.
The principal suspended the two boys for bullying and fighting.- similar words:
- bar, bounce, dismiss, exclude
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| derivations: |
suspendible (adj.), suspendibility (n.) |
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