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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
suspend \suspend"\, 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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   3. to cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding;
      to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
      1913 webster

            suspend your indignation against my brother. --shak.
      1913 webster

            the guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near
            at once suspends their courage and their fear.
                                                  --denham.
      1913 webster

   4. to hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to
      suspend one's judgment or opinion. --locke.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   7. chem. to support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by
      stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
      1913 webster

   to suspend payment com., to cease paying debts or
      obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc.
      1913 webster

   syn: to hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay; hinder;
        debar.
        1913 webster
see also:
suspended suspending sub- pedant suspense to suspend payment 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
        abeyancep
see also:
abeyant inactive in abeyancep 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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





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