suspending
Saysuh-SPEN-ding/səˈspɛndɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of suspend.
The committee is suspending its investigation pending new evidence.
Suspending the heavy chandelier from the ceiling required two steel cables.
Note
One -ing form doing two grammatical jobs. After be it is a participle in the progressive (the committee is suspending its inquiry). At the head of a phrase used as a noun it is a gerund (suspending a chandelier takes cable). Either way it carries every meaning of suspend: pausing, hanging, dispersing a powder through a liquid. The past tense and past participle are suspended.
suspending is a form of suspend
suspend, verb: To halt an activity or process for a time, with the intention of resuming it later. Full entry
- Spelling
- suspend → suspending: add -ing
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