Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - suspense
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Suspense
suspense
~ n a feeling of excitement or anxiety when you do not know what will happen next (in suspense) (The children waited in suspense to hear the end of the story. | keep sb in suspense) (We were kept in suspense waiting for the results of the contest. | the suspense is killing me! (=used when you are excited or anxious because you do not know what will happen))
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1. Suspense is a state of excitement or anxiety about something that is going to happen very soon, for example about some news that you are waiting to hear. The suspense over the two remaining hostages ended last night when the police discovered the bullet ridden bodies. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you keep or leave someone in suspense, you deliberately delay telling them something that they are very eager to know about. Keppler kept all his men in suspense until that morning before announcing which two would be going... PHRASE: V inflects, PHR after v ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from suspendre Date: 15th century 1. the state of being suspended ; suspension 2. a. mental uncertainty ; anxiety b. pleasant excitement as to a decision or outcome a novel of ~ 3. the state or character of being undecided or doubtful ; indecisiveness • ~ful adjective • ~fully adverb • ~fulness noun • ~less adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a state of anxious uncertainty or expectation. 2 Law a suspension; the temporary cessation of a right etc. Phrases and idioms keep in suspense delay informing (a person) of urgent information. suspense account an account in which items are entered temporarily before allocation to the right account. Derivatives suspenseful adj. Etymology: ME f. AF & OF suspens f. past part. of L suspendere SUSPEND ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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сущ. 1) неизвестность 2) ожидание 3) временное прекращение 4) приостанавливание • - be in suspense - keep in suspense ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. беспокойство, тревога ожидания to keep smb. in suspense —- держать кого-л. в напряженном ожидании we waited with great suspense for the doctor's opinion —- с глубоким беспокойством мы ждали заключения врача I can't bear this suspense any longer —- я больше не могу выносить эту неопределенность (это томительное ожидание) 2. напряженный интерес; взволнованность (читателя) a novel of suspense —- приключенческий роман; роман, который держит читателя в напряжении suspense fiction —- приключенческая литература suspense story —- приключенческий рассказ 3. нерешенность, неопределенность our plans were still in suspense —- у нас еще не было точных планов 4. юр. временное прекращение, приостановление 5. стил. ретардация ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) неизвестность, неопределенность; беспокойство; тревога ожидания; нерешенность; the question is in suspense - вопрос еще не решен 2) временное прекращение, приостановка ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1402, from Anglo-Fr. suspens (in en suspens "in abeyance"), from O.Fr. suspens "act of suspending," from L. suspensus, pp. of suspendere (see suspend). Meaning "state of mental uncertainty" (1440) is from legal meaning of "not rendered, not paid, not carried out" (suspended sentence, etc.). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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