resuspend

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verb

To suspend again.

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

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

present singular third person resuspends · participle present resuspending · participle past resuspended · past resuspended

  1. transitiveTo suspend again.
    1 more example

    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 parliamentary sittings.

    2019 September 11, Owen Bowcott, Severin Carrell, “Scottish court ruling: what happens next in prorogation dispute?”, in The Guardian
  2. biologyTo undergo (or cause to undergo) resuspension.

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishsuspend
  7. Englishresuspend

From re- + suspend.

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APA

resuspend. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resuspend

MLA

“resuspend.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resuspend. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resuspend,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resuspend.

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