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Suspension

noun

A mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy.

A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something. Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, pause.

Temporary cessation or suspension. Synonym: abeyance.

An interruption in the intensity or amount of something. Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, respite.

A mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle. Synonym: suspension system.

The act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely). Synonyms: dangling, hanging.

A temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc). Synonym: temporary removal.

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"Suspension" Quotes from Famous Books

... Executive Oppression.-1. Military; 2. Searches and seizures; 3. Life, Liberty, or Property; 4. Suspension ...

— Studies in Civics • James T. McCleary

... more or less complete suspension of this faculty is a not uncommon form of mental and bodily illness. We do not so much mean the mere fading of past impressions as the loss of power to recall them, so that we cannot recall what we wish to remember. This is a result of any serious bodily weakness. It will ...

— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... suspension of the session M. Guizot arrived. He ascended the tribune and announced that the King had summoned M. Mole, to charge him with the formation of a ...

— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo

... any she had ever seen. She knew they must be the parlor and dining and sleeping cars she had read about. And now they were in the midst of a fleet of steamers and barges, and far ahead loomed the first of Cincinnati's big suspension bridges, pictures of which she had many a time gazed at in wonder. There was a mingling of strange loud noises—whistles, engines, on the water, on shore; there was a multitude of what seemed to her feverish activities—she who had not been out ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... brother Joseph full of contempt for the allies (February 18th). "It is difficult," he writes, "to be so cowardly as that! He [Schwarzenberg] had constantly, and in the most insulting terms, refused a suspension of arms of any kind, ... and yet these wretches at the first check fall on their knees. I will grant no armistice till my territory is clear of them." He adds that he now expected to gain the "natural frontiers" offered by the allies at Frankfurt—the minimum that he could accept with honour; ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

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