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Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank..

Suspension :: 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..

Apnoea :: Apnoea (n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

Cable :: Cable (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.

Recess :: Recess (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school..

Sist :: Sist (n.) A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.

Holiday :: Holiday (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.

Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.

Interruption :: Interruption (n.) Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing..

Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension..

Dependence :: Dependence (n.) The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

Trance :: Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible..

Suspension :: 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..

Hesitation :: Hesitation (n.) The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act..

Pause :: Pause (n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment..

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