Suspense is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUSPENSE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a state of mental uncertainty or excitement
• a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen
• a quality in a work of fiction that arouses excited expectation or uncertainty about what may happen
• the temporary cessation or suspension of something.
• state of uncertainty while awaiting news, an event, etc
• apprehension about what is going to happen
• an uncertain cognitive state
• excited anticipation of an approaching climax
ADJECTIVE:
• Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
• Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.
• The state of being suspended; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury.
• Cessation for a time; stop; pause.
• A temporary cessation of one\'s right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.

Words related to SUSPENSE

suspence12 suspens9 suspenseful16 suspensefully21 suspenseless14 suspenses11

Words that contain SUSPENSE

suspenser11 suspenses11 suspensers12 suspenseful16 suspenseless14 suspensefully21 suspensefulness20 suspensefulnesses22

How to use SUSPENSE in a sentence

• Our eyes were hollow with suspense, and all but Shalah had the hunted look of men caught in a trap.
• She went back not unwillingly, for the suspense had become insupportable.
• Isabel sat in trembling suspense for the issue of the scene, and Ives in a few minutes made his appearance in no little alarm.
• He was kept in this painful state of suspense for nearly an hour, when voices were heard at the window, and presently afterwards Hodges was carefully let down.
• They leave me all alone, Alone in this sore anguish of suspense.
• He had almost an irresistible desire to fire and shout out, so as to end the strain of suspense which racked his soul.
• Our suspense was not of great duration, but long enough to get the heart secretly lifted up in communion with a God of mercy.
• For that was a time of great stress, of deep anxiety, and of almost intolerable suspense.
• Take me out of suspense, and let me know the worst.
• In suspense and fear, hourly looking seaward for the dreaded fleet of John Ribaut, the chaplain Mendoza and his brother priests held watch and ward at St.
• Friends in the city were written to, but no information was obtained, and day after day passed without relieving our suspense.
• In his present state of suspense, any occupation was better than sitting idle.
• Horace was young, and weary of the suspense that he had endured in the other room.
• The long suspense wore terribly on the defenders of the house.
• For twelve miles we dashed along, laboring under a state of suspense not to be easily forgotten.
• Cosway presented himself at the house, troubled by natural emotions of anxiety and suspense.
• Nevertheless, the rejoicing was genuine, for our suspense had been followed by an immense relief.
• This state of anxious suspense lasted a considerable time.
• Even now, at this very early stage, I suppose there is hardly a person here who is not suffering from anxiety and suspense.
• There was a curious, even oppressive sense of suspense, of waiting for something to happen.
• The baron sat still as before, but in the midst of his suspense he was conscious of flashes that resembled joy.
• There were moments when I would have welcomed any certainty, even the worst, as a relief from the torture of suspense.
• His pistol exploded at nearly the same time, he dropped to the floor, his light vanished, and for a time all was darkness and suspense.
• Officers were hurrying to and fro between their vessels and the shore and there was a general air of suspense that seemed to indicate early action of some kind.
• The suspense which the rabbi had endured seemed to have suspended the functions of life, and he lay nearly an hour unable to move.
• For three and a half years he had lived in suspense, while everything he loved had lain behind the German lines.
• Thus they filled up the hours and prevented the suspense which otherwise would have been acute, despite their comfortable house.
• During the nerve-racking suspense Pop not only refused to leave the room, he even refused to stand back from the table.

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