suspended Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb hang freely
   suspend.
   
   • The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
2. verb cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
   suspend.
   
   • suspend the particles
3. verb bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
   debar; suspend.
   
4. verb stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
   suspend; freeze.
   
   • Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
5. verb make inoperative or stop
   suspend; set aside.
   
   • suspend payments on the loan
6. verb render temporarily ineffective
   suspend.
   
   • the prison sentence was suspended
7. adjective satellite (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment
   
   • suspended matter such as silt or mud...
   • dust particles suspended in the air
   • droplets in suspension in a gas

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