The construction work was suspended until engineers could verify the stability of the underlying soil.
施工工作被暂停，直到工程师能够验证底层土壤的稳定性。
When a popular ride-sharing app temporarily suspended service in a mid-sized city due to a technical outage, local taxi companies reported a spike in calls during the outage, but call volumes returned to pre-outage levels within a day of the app's service being restored.
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A climatologist argues that restoring oyster reefs along a stretch of coastline has measurably improved water clarity by filtering suspended sediment from the surrounding water.
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When a popular grocery delivery app temporarily suspended same-day delivery due to a technical issue, orders through a competing app with same-day delivery rose noticeably, but overall order volume for the original app returned to its earlier stable level within a week of same-day delivery being restored.
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Which choice best defines “suspended”?
B — Temporarily prevented from continuing. “suspended” means temporarily prevented from continuing.
Which word means “temporarily prevented from continuing”?
A — suspended. “suspended” means temporarily prevented from continuing.
suspended — temporarily prevented from continuing. In Chinese: 暂停的，悬浮的.
suspended is pronounced /səˈspɛndɪd/.
The construction work was suspended until engineers could verify the stability of the underlying soil. (施工工作被暂停，直到工程师能够验证底层土壤的稳定性。)
halted, postponed, deferred — all close in meaning to suspended (temporarily prevented from continuing).
active, ongoing — each the opposite of suspended (temporarily prevented from continuing).
Yes. suspended is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.