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Surtaxes
- noun - an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed
- levy an extra tax on; "surtax luxury items that cost more than $1,000"
Surtouts
- noun - a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat
Surveils
- verb - keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing"
Survives
- verb - continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"
- continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"
- live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
- support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
Suspects
- noun - a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
- hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"
- imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"
- regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
- someone who is under suspicion
Suspends
- verb - bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"
- hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
- make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"
- render temporarily ineffective; "the prison sentence was suspended"
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
Suspires
- verb - draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"
- heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; "She sighed sadly"
Sustains
- verb - admit as valid; "The court sustained the motion"
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?"
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
- lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work"
- provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"
- supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep"
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "Sh
Susurrus
- noun - the indistinct sound of people whispering; "a soft susurrus of conversation"