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suspended

/suh-spend/US // səˈspɛnd //UK // (səˈspɛnd) //

暂停,暂停使用,悬浮,悬挂

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
    • : to attach so as to allow free movement: to suspend a door on a hinge.
    • : to keep from falling, sinking, forming a deposit, etc., as if by hanging: to suspend solid particles in a liquid.
    • : to hold or keep undetermined; refrain from forming or concluding definitely: to suspend one's judgment.
    • : to defer or postpone: to suspend sentence on a convicted person.
    • : to cause to cease or bring to a stop or stay, usually for a time: to suspend payment.
    • : to cause to cease for a time from operation or effect, as a law, rule, privilege, service, or the like: to suspend ferry service.
    • : to debar, usually for a limited time, from the exercise of an office or function or the enjoyment of a privilege: The student was suspended from school.
    • : to keep in a mood or feeling of expectation or incompleteness; keep waiting in suspense: Finish the story; don't suspend us in midair.
    • : Music. to prolong into the next chord.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to come to a stop, usually temporarily; cease from operation for a time.
    • : to stop payment; be unable to meet financial obligations.
    • : to hang or be suspended, as from another object: The chandelier suspends from the ceiling.
    • : to be suspended, as in a liquid, gas, etc.

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Examples

  • Some fire pits come with grates that allow for cooking, but if you have one that doesn’t accommodate a grate, you can buy a steel tripod that will allow you to suspend a Dutch oven above your pit.

  • Only the day care’s food permit is temporarily suspended — but will be restored if Phillips complies with restrictions.

  • The actual business end of the telescope, where radio waves were sensed, was an instrument platform suspended high above it by cables strung from three towers.

  • An elevated walkway positions you at eye-level with suspended planes, functioning like a pandemic-conscious highway.

  • Far from comfortably suspended, due to the harness I planned to wear all night and the severe wedgie it caused, but suspended nonetheless.

  • They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.

  • He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with all but two and a half years suspended.

  • Time was suspended as the world watched and waited for news about the young, brave girl from the Swat Valley.

  • This may be precisely the point: that fiction at its best is a sphere of suspended belief as much as suspended disbelief.

  • From the roof of the barn is a long loop of rope, through this the turkey is suspended by its legs.

  • Because the universe is governed by laws, and there is no credible instance on record of those laws being suspended.

  • It was like a dream of beauty suspended in the air before you—floating there—and you didn't want to disturb it.

  • The three banks thereupon opened their doors and satisfied the note-holders, ordinary business being, meanwhile, suspended.

  • His mind had suspended its operations, whilst his physical eye stared upon vacancy.

  • A leather cased camera was suspended from his bull neck by means of a strap.

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