1. suspension
noun. ['səˈspɛnʃən'] a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy.
Synonyms
- slurry
- mixture
- mash
- resuspension
- vapour
Antonyms
- keep quiet
- function
- stay
- unify
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Words that Rhyme with Suspension
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Example sentences of the word suspension
1. Noun, singular or mass
The front suspension, cross member and engine will come out as a single unit.
Quotes containing the word suspension
1. Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by the senses. Frustrated, it creates even greater havoc, for like all love it is a madness.
- Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
2. Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
- Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark & Termite
2. suspension
noun. ['səˈspɛnʃən'] the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely).
Synonyms
- hanging
- support
- dangling
Antonyms
- be active
- lie
- sit
- stand
3. suspension
noun. ['səˈspɛnʃən'] a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle.
Synonyms
- mechanical system
- car
- automotive vehicle
- railroad car
- railcar
- railway car
- motor vehicle
- cushion
- shock absorber
- shock
Antonyms
- deny
- enable
- disagree
- lose
4. suspension
noun. ['səˈspɛnʃən'] a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc).
Synonyms
- rustication
- debarment
Antonyms
- worry
- louden
- change
5. suspension
noun. ['səˈspɛnʃən'] an interruption in the intensity or amount of something.
Synonyms
- remittal
- remission
- respite
- defervescence
- abatement
- hiatus
- subsidence
- reprieve
- break
Antonyms
- let go of
- defy
- surrender
- exclude
6. suspension
noun. ['səˈspɛnʃən'] temporary cessation or suspension.
Synonyms
- deferral
- standdown
- cold storage
- moratorium
- inactiveness
- inaction
- inactivity
- stand-down
- recess
Antonyms
- action
- activeness
- start
- let
7. suspension
noun. ['səˈspɛnʃən'] a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.
Synonyms
- respite
- lull
- rest
- dead air
- rest period
- hold
- break
- interruption
- blackout
- time lag
- postponement
- lapse
- halftime
- interval
- pause
- wait
- delay
- relief
- letup
- intermission
- caesura
- time-out
Antonyms
- respect
- explode
- begin
- promote