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suspension
  1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
  2. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
  3. The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
  4. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
  5. (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
  6. (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
  7. (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
  8. (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
  9. (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function's.
  10. (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
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  12. Examples:
    1. “A diplomatic incident between the two sides resulted in the suspension of talks.”
      “The $12-billion mark would not be achieved in the current fiscal year due to the complete suspension of trade between the two countries.”
      “After a brief suspension of the meeting for consultations, the President of the Council made a statement on behalf of members.”
suspense
  1. The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
  2. the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
  3. The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
  4. (law) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “We sat and waited in suspense for the doctor to give us the news.”
      “I can't wait for the concert. The suspense is killing me!”
      “The suspense continued with the hero hanging desperately from a cliff. Would he plunge to his death or not?”
suspender
  1. Something or someone who suspends.
  2. (US) An item of apparel consisting of a strap worn over the shoulder and used to hold up trousers. Called braces in other parts of the world.
  3. (Britain) An item of apparel used to hold up a sock or (now especially) a stocking, such as a garter, or each of the fastening-straps attached to a corset or suspender belt.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Underwear with suspender elastic hanging off may have looked chicly fetishistic on the women but positively frightful on the men.”
      “She was dressed in a suspender belt, stockings and wearing rubber gloves which he liked.”
      “Some spider thongs, suspender G-strings, and skimpy tops come with a warning that they aren't for everyone.”
suspenders
  1. (US) A pair of straps crossing one's shoulders and extending down to one's trousers, where a clip or button arrangement allows them to affix to the trousers, ensuring that they will not fall off. (Britain) Braces.
  2. (Britain) Small straps, attached to a suspender belt, that hold up a woman's stockings. (US) Garters.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He prefers wearing khakis and sweaters to wearing pinstripes and suspenders.”
      “Even sitting at home, she's in an extravagant outfit of stockings, suspenders, basque, feather boa, everything.”
      “First of all, suspenders should only be worn with dressy pants, not with jeans or khakis.”
suspensory
  1. Something that suspends.
  2. Specifically the suspensory ligament
suspensorium
  1. (anatomy) Anything that suspends or holds up a part, especially the mandibular suspensorium, a series of bones or cartilages connecting the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.
suspenser
  1. (informal) A film, television program, etc. that offers an atmosphere of suspense.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This deceptive suspenser has many strong qualities, and slowly tightens over a superbly gripping first hour.”
      “Fin de siecle suspenser has atmosphere and a classy veneer, but is really kind of stagey and musty.”
      “It's a supernatural psychological suspenser in which a puddle of water, a half glimpsed figure and a child's handbag are enough to turn your blood to ice.”
suspensation
  1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time.
suspensefulness
  1. The state of being suspenseful; suspense.
suspensibility
  1. The quality or state of being suspensible.
suspensiveness
  1. The state or condition of being suspensive.
suspendee
  1. A person who or thing that is suspended.
suspence
  1. Obsolete spelling of suspense
  2. Examples:
    1. “The suspence lasted until the end of competitions and trams are really close by the points?”
      “If you are loving of games cats and comic strips, mischiati with a wire of suspence then you are in situated the just one.”
      “A mix from policial suspence,thriller and sci fi.”
suspensibilities
  1. plural of suspensibility
suspensoria
  1. plural of suspensorium
  2. Examples:
    1. “Rudiments of the intervertebral portions of the notochord may long be detected in the ligamenta suspensoria.”
      “The ventral and lateral skull region, all the opercular bones, most of the lateral ethmoids, and suspensoria are missing.”
suspensations
  1. plural of suspensation
suspensions
  1. plural of suspension
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Gravesend manager Andy Ford has no fresh injury concerns or suspensions to worry about.”
      “We get detentions and suspensions for dilly-dallying like that, why shouldn't teachers?”
      “Growth was determined by plating suspensions of cells using a 32-point inoculator.”
suspensories
  1. plural of suspensory
  2. Examples:
    1. “Clinical trials show that suspensories can suppress sperm counts and make the remaining sperms poor swimmers.”
suspendees
  1. plural of suspendee
suspensers
suspenses
  1. plural of suspense
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She depicted the character of her husband, and the whole train of suspenses and inquietudes occasioned by his disappearance.”
      “What perplexities, misunderstandings, and suspenses might not grow out of this uncertainty?”
      “The FRAGO log provided a quick and effective tool for managing large volumes of information and multiple suspenses with easy-to-use search features.”
suspences
  1. plural of suspence
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