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Suspend vs Cancelled - What's the difference?

suspend | cancelled |

As verbs the difference between suspend and cancelled

is that suspend is to halt something temporarily while cancelled is (cancel).

As an adjective cancelled is

no longer planned or scheduled.

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

    * * English ergative verbs ----

    cancelled

    English

    Alternative forms

    * canceled (US)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cancel)
  • The game was cancelled because of snow on the field.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • No longer planned or scheduled.
  • The cancelled show would have drawn 5,000 fans.
  • (of a mail item) Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.