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Frozen vs Suspend - What's the difference?

frozen | suspend |

As verbs the difference between frozen and suspend

is that frozen is while suspend is to halt something temporarily.

As an adjective frozen

is in the state of that which freezes; in ice form.

frozen

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In the state of that which freezes; in ice form.
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  • Immobilized.
  • (label) In a state such that transactions are not allowed.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • The mammoth was frozen shortly after death.
    English adjectives ending in -en English irregular past participles

    suspend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To halt something temporarily.
  • The meeting was suspended for lunch.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Suspend your indignation against my brother.
  • * Denham
  • The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
  • To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
  • to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
    (John Locke)
  • To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
  • to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
  • To hang freely; underhang.
  • to suspend a ball by a thread
  • To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
  • (obsolete) To make to depend.
  • * Tillotson
  • God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
  • To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
  • to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club
  • * Bishop Sanderson
  • Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
  • (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
  • Antonyms

    * resume

    See also

    suspension, suspenders

    Anagrams

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