suspense
noun/səˈspens/
/səˈspens/
[uncountable]- a feeling of worry or excitement that you have when you feel that something is going to happen, somebody 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.
Extra Examples- Don't look at the end of the book yet—you'll break the suspense.
- I don't get the results till next week, and the suspense is killing me.
- I suffered agonies of suspense in silence.
- They were kept in suspense about joining the expedition for several weeks.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- nail-biting
- unbearable
- genuine
- …
- break
- spoil
- build
- …
- be killing somebody
- film
- movie
- story
- …
- suspense about
- a state of suspense
- keep somebody in suspense
- leave somebody in suspense
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French suspens ‘abeyance’, based on Latin suspensus ‘suspended, hovering, doubtful’, past participle of suspendere, from sub- ‘from below’ + pendere ‘hang’.
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