1.
Suspense is a state of excitement or anxiety about something that is going to happen very soon, for example about some news that you are waiting to hear.
The ~ over the two remaining hostages ended last night when the police discovered the bullet ridden bodies.
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2.
If you keep or leave someone in ~, you deliberately delay telling them something that they are very eager to know about.
Keppler kept all his men in ~ until that morning before announcing which two would be going...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR after v