suspend

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Verb

suspend (third-person singular simple present suspends, present participle suspending, simple past and past participle suspended)

1. To halt something temporarily
2. To hang freely; underhang
3. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

Antonyms

• (to halt something temporarily; to discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event): resume

Translations

To halt temporarily

Czech: pozastavit (cs) Finnish: pysäyttää (fi), keskeyttää (fi) Hebrew: השעה (he) (hish'á)

Hungarian: felfüggeszt (hu) Romanian: suspenda (ro), amâna (ro)

To hang freely

Finnish: ripustaa (fi), roikkua (fi), riippua (fi) French: suspendre (fr) Ido: suspendar

Italian: appendere (it) Romanian: suspenda (ro), atârna (ro), agăța (ro) Scottish Gaelic: croch (gd)

To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event

Dutch: afbreken (nl), stopzetten (nl), afgelasten (nl), onderbreken (nl) Finnish: keskeyttää (fi), lakkauttaa (fi) French: suspendre (fr) German: aufheben (de), aussetzen (de), aufschieben (de) Ido: suspensar

Italian: sospendere (it) Romanian: suspenda (ro), întrerupe (ro) (sense: întrerupe temporar) Scottish Gaelic: cuir à dreuchd (gd) Turkish: askiya almak (tr)

See also

suspension, suspenders

Anagrams

• sends up
• sendups

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French

Verb

suspend

1. third-person singular present indicative of suspendre