against, pregnable, unable to endure or tolerate or stand; subject, given to, disposed to, likely to get, liable to; prone to, predisposed to, inclined toward, lean ing toward.
suspect, v. 1. doubt, disbelieve, be skeptical or suspicious, distrust, mistrust; harbor suspicions, Inf. smell a rat, smell something rotten, have one's doubts, not bet on.
2. surmise, guess, hazard a guess, conjecture, infer; imagine, fancy, think, opine, theorize, believe, wonder; suppose, postulate, assume, presume, hypothesize; divine, have a sneaking suspicion, intuit, have a clue.
-adj. 3. open to or under suspicion, suspicious, questionable, not believed, not trusted, doubted; sneaky, furtive, shady, hiding something.
suspend, v. 1. hang, put up, depend, dangle, sling, drop, fall.
2. hold off, withhold, postpone, defer, delay, retard, put off; table, shelve, pigeonhole, put on the back burner; carry over, keep pending, continue, keep on ice; procrastinate, lallygag, fiddle around, dally.
3. stop, put a stop to, halt, stay, quit, cease, end, bring to an end; hold up, arrest, detain, stall, check, cut short; lift, intermit, remove, rescind; pretermit, interrupt, break off, discontinue.
4. debar, shut out, exclude, eliminate, blackball, reject; expel, dismiss, throw out, Inf. bounce, eject, evict; unseat, Law. disbar, unfrock, discharge, send packing.
suspended, adj. 1. hanging, dependent, depending, pendent, pendulous, dangling, drooping.
2. postponed, put off, delayed, held up, withheld; tabled, shelved, continued; up in the air, in suspense, undecided, unfinished, unresolved, unsettled, pending, on ice.
3. inactive, in mothballs, in wraps; discontinued, not in force, out of action.
suspenders, n. Chiefly Dial, galluses, Brit, braces, Brit, sock suspenders, garters; support.
suspense, n. 1. excitement, anticipation, expectation; uncertainty, incertitude, unsureness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubitation, dubiety, dubiousness, dubiosity; indefiniteness, ambiguity, ambiguousness, vagueness, haziness, fogginess.
2. indecision, indecisiveness, irresolution, irresoluteness, wavering, hesitancy, hesitation; unsettledness, ambivalence, double-mindedness, mixed feelings; fence-sitting, fence-straddling, tergiversation, shillyshally, vacillation, oscillation, fluctuation, blowing hot and cold.
3. suspension, interruption, discontinuance, discontinuation. See suspension.
suspension, n. interruption, discontinuance, abeyance, suspense; cessation, stop, stoppage, stopping, halt; surcease, abruption, breaking off, severance, sunderance, disconnection, temporary dismissal; adjournment, postponement, deferment, delay; stay, reprieve, respite; intermission, interval, interim, interlude, interregnum, Sports, half time; pause, break, pause or break in the action, time-out, hiatus, lacuna, gap; recess, rest, rest period, breather, lull, Inf. letup, remission; truce, cease-fire, armistice.
suspicion, n. 1. distrust, mistrust, credibility gap, lack of confidence or trust; doubt, doubtfulness, dubitation, dubiety, dubiousness, dubiosity; disbelief, unbelief, incredulity, incredulousness; watchfulness, wariness, leeriness, shyness; hesitation, uncertainty, misgiving, qualm, question, second thought, funny feeling, SI. bad vibes.
2. notion, idea, thought, feeling, gut feeling, SI. sneaking suspicion or feeling, Inf. hunch; supposition, conjecture, guess, piece of guesswork, speculation, surmise; inference, deduction, conclusion.
