Do Not Keep in Suspense?

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.

What does keep you in suspense mean?

Suspense is a feeling of excited waiting. If you have been waiting for weeks to get an answer to your proposal of marriage, you are being kept in suspense. The verb form, suspend, literally means to keep hanging. ... If you are in suspense, you're waiting on something that you really have to know.

What does it mean when something is in suspense?

1 : the state of being suspended : suspension. 2a : mental uncertainty : anxiety. b : pleasant excitement as to a decision or outcome a novel of suspense. 3 : the state or character of being undecided or doubtful : indecisiveness.