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resuspend

resuspend verb: to suspend again.

Verb

resuspend (third-person singular simple present resuspends, present participle resuspending, simple past and past participle resuspended)

  1. (transitive) To suspend again.
    • Jolyon Maugham QC […] argued that since the government had not applied to delay the effect of the ruling, parliament is no longer suspended. If the government wants to delay prorogation further, he maintained, ministers would have to make a fresh application at a UK court immediately to resuspend...2019 September 11, Owen Bowcott, Severin Carrell, “Scottish court ruling: what happens next in prorogation dispute?”, in The Guardian
  2. To undergo (or cause to undergo) resuspension.

Forms of resuspend

third-person singular presentresuspends
present participleresuspending
past participleresuspended
pastresuspended

Origin of resuspend

From re- + suspend.

Questions about resuspend

What does resuspend mean?
Resuspend means to suspend again.
What part of speech is resuspend?
Resuspend is a verb.
What is the past tense of resuspend?
The past tense of resuspend is resuspended.

Words near resuspend in the dictionary

  1. resuscitations
  2. resuscitative
  3. resuscitator
  4. resuscitators
  5. resuses
  6. resuspend
  7. resuspendable
  8. resuspended
  9. resuspending
  10. resuspends
  11. resuspension

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