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suspended

adjective as in pensile

Weak match

adjective as in postponed

Strongest matches

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Some fire pits come with grates that allow for cooking, but if you have one that doesn’t accommodate a grate, you can buy a steel tripod that will allow you to suspend a Dutch oven above your pit.

Only the day care’s food permit is temporarily suspended — but will be restored if Phillips complies with restrictions.

The actual business end of the telescope, where radio waves were sensed, was an instrument platform suspended high above it by cables strung from three towers.

An elevated walkway positions you at eye-level with suspended planes, functioning like a pandemic-conscious highway.

Far from comfortably suspended, due to the harness I planned to wear all night and the severe wedgie it caused, but suspended nonetheless.

They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with all but two and a half years suspended.

Time was suspended as the world watched and waited for news about the young, brave girl from the Swat Valley.

This may be precisely the point: that fiction at its best is a sphere of suspended belief as much as suspended disbelief.

From the roof of the barn is a long loop of rope, through this the turkey is suspended by its legs.

Because the universe is governed by laws, and there is no credible instance on record of those laws being suspended.

It was like a dream of beauty suspended in the air before you—floating there—and you didn't want to disturb it.

The three banks thereupon opened their doors and satisfied the note-holders, ordinary business being, meanwhile, suspended.

His mind had suspended its operations, whilst his physical eye stared upon vacancy.

A leather cased camera was suspended from his bull neck by means of a strap.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to suspended, such as: dangling, drooping, hanging, and pendulous.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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