Suspended

Definition

suspend /sǝ'spend/ v ၁။ ~ sth (from sth) ( fml ) ဆိုင္းထားသည္။ A lamp was suspended from the ceiling above us. ၂။ (က) ဆိုင္းငံ့ထားသည္။ ရပ္ဆိုင္းသည္။ suspend a rule ❍ Rail services are suspended indefinitely because of the strike. ❍ In the theatre we willingly suspend disbelief (ie temporarily believe that the characters, etc are real). ❍ During the crisis, the constitution was suspended (ie people did not have their normal civil rights). (ခ) ဆိုင္းငံ့သည္။ suspend introduction of the new scheme ❍ suspend judgement (ie delay forming or expressing an opinion) ❍ give a criminal a suspended sentence (ie not order a prison sentence unless he or she commits a further offence). ၃။ ~ sb (from sth) (esp passive) ရာထူးေခတၱခ်ထားသည္။ The police officer was suspended while the complaint was investigated. ❍ She was suspended from school for stealing. ❏ suspended adj ဆိုင္းေန[ေသာ]။ particles suspended in water ❍ Smoke hung suspended in the still air. ❏ suspended animation n [U] ေျမာေနျခင္း (သို႔) မဖ်က္သိမ္းဘဲ ယာယီဆိုင္းငံ့ထားျခင္း။ The whole project is in suspended animation while we wait for permission to proceed. ဒီစီမံကိန္းအတြက္ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္မရခင္(မဖ်က္သိမ္း ဘဲ) ယာယီဆိုင္းငံ့ထားသည္။

Examples

1. The Football Association suspended him for spitting at an opponent.
2. Operations at the plant have been suspended because of safety concerns.
3. His licence was suspended after a drink-driving conviction.
4. A huge chandelier was suspended above the table.
5. They suspended him by his feet.