suspend

Other forms of suspend

past tense

suspended·

present participle

suspending·

third person

suspends·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about suspend

What does suspend mean?

suspend means "hang freely". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suspend?

suspend has 2 syllables: su-spend. The stress falls on "spend". In IPA it is /səˈspɛnd/.

What is another word for suspend?

Close synonyms include debar, freeze, set aside. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suspend a common word?

suspend is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with suspend?

4 words rhyme with suspend. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.