Put_off vs Suspend - What's the difference?
put_off | suspend | Related terms |
To procrastinate
to delay (a task, event, or deadline)
to offend, repulse, or frighten
offended, repulsed
daunted or fazed
To halt something temporarily.
* Shakespeare
* Denham
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
To hang freely; underhang.
To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
(obsolete) To make to depend.
* Tillotson
To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
* Bishop Sanderson
(chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
Put_off is a related term of suspend.
As verbs the difference between put_off and suspend
is that put_off is to procrastinate while suspend is to halt something temporarily.As an adjective put_off
is offended, repulsed.put_off
English
Verb
- Don't put off your homework to the last minute.
- Don't put''' your homework '''off to the last minute.
- Don't put''' it '''off to the last minute.
- Don't put''' it '''off .
- The storm put off the game by a week.
- The storm put''' the game '''off by a week.
- Almost drowning put''' him '''off swimming.
Usage notes
* The object in all senses can come before or after the particle, except that personal pronouns nearly always precede the particle.Derived terms
* off-putting * put-off (noun)Adjective
- The guest was quite put off by an odor.
- All but the most dedicated were put off by the huge task.
Anagrams
*suspend
English
Verb
(en verb)- The meeting was suspended for lunch.
- Suspend your indignation against my brother.
- The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
- to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
- (John Locke)
- to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
- to suspend a ball by a thread
- God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
- to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club
- 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.