Dictionary entry details
• SUSPEND (verb)
Meaning:
Hang freely
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
Hypernyms (to "suspend" is one way to...):
hang; hang up (cause to be hanging or suspended)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suspend"):
dangle (cause to dangle or hang freely)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
suspend the particles
Hypernyms (to "suspend" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suspend"):
resuspend (put back into suspension)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They suspend the lights from the ceiling
Meaning:
Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
debar; suspend
Hypernyms (to "suspend" is one way to...):
expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)
"Suspend" entails doing...:
penalise; penalize; punish (impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suspend"):
rusticate; send down (suspend temporarily from college or university, in England)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Meaning:
Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
suspend; freeze
Context example:
Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
Hypernyms (to "suspend" is one way to...):
break; interrupt (terminate)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make inoperative or stop
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
set aside; suspend
Context example:
suspend payments on the loan
Hypernyms (to "suspend" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Render temporarily ineffective
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
the prison sentence was suspended
Hypernyms (to "suspend" is one way to...):
defer; hold over; postpone; prorogue; put off; put over; remit; set back; shelve; table (hold back to a later time)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
