Crossword-Solution: SUSPENSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Suspension | n. | The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook. |
| Suspension | n. | Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation |
| Suspension | n. | Of labor, study, pain, etc. |
| Suspension | n. | Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced. |
| Suspension | n. | Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank. |
| Suspension | n. | Of punishment, or sentence of punishment. |
| Suspension | n. | Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman. |
| Suspension | n. | Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act. |
| Suspension | n. | A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition. |
| Suspension | n. | The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state. |
| Suspension | n. | A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed. |
| Suspension | n. | A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary. |
| Suspension | n. | The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “SUSPENSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| temporary removal (as from office or privileges) | 1 answer |
| Punishment for a student | 1 answer |
| Category of the Golden Gate Bridge. | 1 answer |
| DAYS of grace | 7 answers |
| A BRIDGE THAT HAS A ROADWAY SUPPORTED BY CABLES THAT ARE ANCHORED AT BOTH ENDS | 10 answers |
| Levitation | 18 answers |
| gaining time | 18 answers |
| HOMOGENOUS mixture | 19 answers |
| Vacation | 29 answers |
| cancelling | 32 answers |
| inactivating | 32 answers |
| inactivation | 32 answers |
| remanet | 36 answers |
| Term | 38 answers |
| cold storage | 40 answers |
| tabling | 41 answers |
| putting off | 42 answers |
| Deferring | 42 answers |
| shelving | 42 answers |
| moratorium | 43 answers |
| interregnum | 44 answers |
| Demotion | 47 answers |
| Procrastination. | 49 answers |
| demurral | 49 answers |
| Delaying | 51 answers |
| Spell | 57 answers |
| tarrying | 58 answers |
| discontinuity | 64 answers |
| deferral | 65 answers |
| Hiatus | 65 answers |
| discontinuance | 66 answers |
| Space | 67 answers |
| Span | 77 answers |
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Sentences with SUSPENSION (5)
For a few seconds the wayfarer stood with that tense stillness which signifies itself to be not the end but merely the suspension, of a previous motion.
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment.
Have you ever seen his first suspension bridge in Canada, the one he was doing when I first knew him? I hope you will see it sometime.
Should his child sicken unto death, why look for scarce abatement of his cheerfulness, or suspension of his daily craft; while a word, gesture, or glance from that same child at play or laid asleep, will start him to an agony of fear, exasperation, just as like! The law of the life, it seems, to which he was temporarily admitted, has become to him the law of this earthly life; his heart and brain move there, his feet stay here.
The old gentleman who had decided the suspension and the resumption of the game, gave audible expression to the prevailing sentiment of the party.
Quotes with SUSPENSION (3)
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations of time as a continuum, as something coming to an end, not a suspension: the senses wouldn’t protect me. I caution you as I was never cautioned: you will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger. Your body will age, you will continue to need. You will want the earth, then more of the earth — Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is enc…
He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–2006).