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# suspend

«suspend» in Mova's school dictionary: **to hang it from above: a lamp suspended from the ceiling** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (suspend, suspends, suspended, suspending)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To suspend something is to hang it from above: a lamp suspended from the ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#m1)

2) To suspend something is to stop it for a while: matches were suspended because of snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#m2)

3) To suspend a pupil, worker or player is to stop them from coming to school, work or playing for a time as a punishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#m3)

4) (science) If tiny bits are suspended in a liquid or gas, they float in it without sinking or dissolving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

School life: a pupil can be suspended (UK: «excluded» for a fixed time) for serious bad behaviour. Science: in a suspension (like muddy water) bits float and slowly settle; this is different from a solution. Everyday news: trains suspended, services suspended. Stories: «suspend disbelief» means pretending for a while that a magic story is real. Phrases: «suspended sentence» (law), «suspended animation».

### examples

- A big chandelier was suspended from the ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#x1)
- All flights were suspended because of the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#x2)
- He was suspended from school for fighting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#x3)
- The player was suspended for two matches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#x4)
- Mud particles were suspended in the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#x5)
- The bridge is suspended from strong cables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#x6)
- The club suspended training during the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#x7)
- For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and suspending herself from it, pretended to be dead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/#x8)

### note

Noun forms: suspension (the act or a mixture), suspense (the tense feeling in a story). «Suspension bridge» = a bridge hung from cables. Do not confuse «suspend» with «expel» (to remove permanently).

### In the corpora

- ["Emergency measures" can mean that normal rights and laws are suspended (stopped for a while).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/11/)
- [Jake was suspended for three days after a fight in the dinner hall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/0/)
- [When Jake was suspended for fighting, the school phoned his dad at the warehouse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/0/)
- [When a child is suspended, a parent often has to leave work to collect them and look after them at home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «suspend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suspend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.