Suspended

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suspend \Sus*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suspended}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Suspending}.] [F. suspendre, or OF. souspendre (where
     the prefix is L. subtus below, from sub under), L.
     suspendere, suspensum; pref. sus- (see {Sub-}) + pendere to
     hang. See {Pedant}, and cf. {Suspense}, n.]
     1. To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a


        ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
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     2. To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of
        eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of
        life. [Archaic] --Tillotson.
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     3. To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding;
        to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
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              Suspend your indignation against my brother. --Shak.
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              The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near
              At once suspends their courage and their fear.
                                                    --Denham.
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     4. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to
        suspend one's judgment or opinion. --Locke.
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     5. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any
        privilege, from the execution of an office, from the
        enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from
        college; to suspend a member of a club.
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              Good men should not be suspended from the exercise
              of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood
              for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged
              indifferent.                          --Bp.
                                                    Sanderson.
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     6. To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as,
        to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of
        a legislative body.
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     7. (Chem.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by
        stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
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     {To suspend payment} (Com.), to cease paying debts or
        obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc.
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     Syn: To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay; hinder;
          debar.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suspended
       adj 1: (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"
       2: temporarily inactive [syn: {abeyant}, {inactive}, {in
          abeyance(p)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "suspended":
     abeyant, apathetic, broken, broken off, cascading, cataleptic,
     catatonic, chopped-off, choppy, dangling, dead, decousu, dependent,
     depending, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete,
     disjunctive, dopey, dormant, dull, episodic, extra, falling,
     falling loosely, fitful, flat, flowing, foul, fresh, groggy,
     hanging, heavy, held back, held in reserve, held out, herky-jerky,
     hung, in abeyance, in hand, in suspense, inactive, incoherent,
     inert, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky,
     languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, logy, mint, new,
     noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform,
     original, parenthetic, passive, patchy, pendent, pending,
     pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile, phlegmatic,
     pristine, put aside, put by, reserve, saved, scrappy, sedentary,
     slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, snatchy, spare,
     spasmodic, spotty, stagnant, standing, static, stored, swinging,
     tame, to spare, torpid, unapplied, unaroused, unbeaten,
     unconnected, unconsumed, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended,
     unhandled, unjoined, unspent, unsuccessive, untapped, untouched,
     untrodden, unused, unutilized, waived, weeping