Từ điển trực tuyến

suspense

US: /səˈspɛns/

UK: /səspˈɛns/

English Vietnamese dictionary

suspense /səs'pens/

danh từ
- tình trạng chờ đợi, tình trạng hồi hộp, tình trạng chưa quyết định
  - to keep somebody in suspense: để ai trong tình trạng chờ đợi
- (pháp lý) sự tạm hoãn, sự đình chỉ; sự treo quyền

Advanced English dictionary

+ noun
[U] a feeling of worry or excitement that you have when you feel that sth is going to happen, sb is going to tell you some news, etc: a tale of mystery and suspense + Don't keep us in suspense. Tell us what happened! + I couldn't bear the suspense a moment longer.

Collocation dictionary

ADJ.

heart-pounding, nail-biting, unbearable

VERB + SUSPENSE

keep sb in

Don't keep us in suspense?did you get the job or not?

| break

Don't look at the end of the book yet?you'll break the suspense.

| build (up), create | bear

She couldn't bear the suspense a moment longer.

SUSPENSE + VERB

be killing sb

(informal) I don't get the results till next week, and the suspense is killing me.

SUSPENSE + NOUN

story

PREP.

~ about

They were kept in suspense about their possibility of joining the expedition for several weeks.

PHRASES

an agony of suspense

I suffered agonies of suspense in silence.

| a state of suspense

Concise English dictionary

sə'spens
noun
+apprehension about what is going to happen
+an uncertain cognitive state
+excited anticipation of an approaching climax