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suspension

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"Temporary ban"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /səˈspɛnʃən/Part of speech nounSorted einnopsssuStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc.)

Word origin

Borrowed from Late Latin suspensiōnem (“arching, vaulting; suspension”), from suspendēre (“to hang up, to suspend”), from sub- (“under”) + pendere (“to hang, to suspend”), from Proto-Italic *pendō (“to hang, to put in a hanging position”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-e-ti, from *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”)). Compare Anglo-Norman suspensiun, French suspension, Occitan suspensio.

Used in a sentence

  • suspension from a hook
  • Fear of dioxin emissions led to suspension of efforts to establish a waste-to-energy plant at the Brooklyn Navy yard.
  • As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water.

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