Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to suspend
Participle: suspended
Gerund: suspending
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | suspend |
| you | suspend |
| he;she;it | suspends |
| we | suspend |
| you | suspend |
| they | suspend |
Perfect
| I | have suspended |
| you | have suspended |
| he;she;it | has suspended |
| we | have suspended |
| you | have suspended |
| they | have suspended |
Past
| I | suspended |
| you | suspended |
| he;she;it | suspended |
| we | suspended |
| you | suspended |
| they | suspended |
Pluperfect
| I | had suspended |
| you | had suspended |
| he;she;it | had suspended |
| we | had suspended |
| you | had suspended |
| they | had suspended |
Future
| I | will suspend |
| you | will suspend |
| he;she;it | will suspend |
| we | will suspend |
| you | will suspend |
| they | will suspend |
Future Perfect
| I | will have suspended |
| you | will have suspended |
| he;she;it | will have suspended |
| we | will have suspended |
| you | will have suspended |
| they | will have suspended |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | suspend |
| you | suspend |
| he;she;it | suspend |
| we | suspend |
| you | suspend |
| they | suspend |
Perfect
| I | have suspended |
| you | have suspended |
| he;she;it | have suspended |
| we | have suspended |
| you | have suspended |
| they | have suspended |
Imperfect
| I | suspended |
| you | suspended |
| he;she;it | suspended |
| we | suspended |
| you | suspended |
| they | suspended |
Pluperfect
| I | had suspended |
| you | had suspended |
| he;she;it | had suspended |
| we | had suspended |
| you | had suspended |
| they | had suspended |
Conditional
Present
| I | would suspend |
| you | would suspend |
| he;she;it | would suspend |
| we | would suspend |
| you | would suspend |
| they | would suspend |
Perfect
| I | would have suspended |
| you | would have suspended |
| he;she;it | would have suspended |
| we | would have suspended |
| you | would have suspended |
| they | would have suspended |
Imperative
| you | suspend |
| we | Let's suspend |
| you | suspend |
Verbs conjugated like 'suspend'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'suspend'
bespend,
despend,
dispend,
mispend,
outspend,
respend,
resuspend,
spend,
stipend,
subpena,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- be or remain suspended
- dangle, hang
- to delay taking action; to wait until later
- avert, forestall, forestay, forslow, protract, retard, procrastinate
- hang
- attach, dangle, swing
- postpone
- delay, intermit, withhold, defer, arrest, interrupt
- reject
- refuse, exclude, bar, omit
Antonyms
- postpone
- prolong, extend, pursue, persist
- reject
- welcome, admit, select, choose
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1290, "to bar or exclude temporarily from some function or privilege, to cause to cease for a time," from O.Fr. suspendre, from L. suspendere "to hang, stop," from sub "up from under" + pendere "cause to hang, weigh" (see pendant). The lit. sense of "to cause to hang by a support from above" is recorded from c.1440. Suspenders is attested from 1810, Amer.Eng. Suspended animation first recorded 1795.
2. From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.
Sample Sentences
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[...] If I remember right, there are no shops for the men, but be that as it may, the greater part of them labour in certain stone-quarries near at hand. The day being very wet indeed, this labour was suspended, and the prisoners were in their cells. Imagine these cells, some two or three hundred in number, and in every one a man locked up; this one at his door for air, with his hands thrust through the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] uncertainty and doubt, at first, relative to the sleeping arrangements on board this boat. I remained in the same vague state of mind until ten o’clock or thereabouts, when going below, I found suspended on either side of the cabin, three long tiers of hanging bookshelves, designed apparently for volumes of the small octavo size. Looking with greater attention at these contrivances (wondering to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] but the life and death of Eva did work a marked change in her. The callous indifference was gone; there was now sensibility, hope, desire, and the striving for good,—a strife irregular, interrupted, suspended oft, but yet renewed again.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)