Betydelse av suspending på svenska

• 0 present participle of suspend

• 1 to stop something from being active, either temporarily or permanently:

  • The ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.

  • The country's president has suspended the constitution and assumed total power.

  • When you go to the theatre, you have to be willing to suspend disbelief (= to act as if you believe that what you are seeing is real or true, although you know that it is not).

  • I'm suspending judgment (= not forming an opinion) on the book I'm reading until I've finished it.

  • Mr Young was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years (= if he commits another crime within two years, he will have to go to prison for six months for his original crime).

  • She was suspended from school for fighting.

  • He was suspended for four games after arguing with the referee.

• 2 to hang:

  • The builders worked on wooden platforms, suspended by ropes from the roof of the building.

  • It was very uncomfortable lying on the hospital bed with my legs suspended in the air.

  • The drug is suspended in a saline solution.

  • A cloud of smoke was suspended in the air.