Suspended

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sus⋅pend

[suh-spend]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.

2.	to attach so as to allow free movement: to suspend a door on a hinge.

3.	to keep from falling, sinking, forming a deposit, etc., as if by hanging: to suspend solid particles in a liquid.

4.	to hold or keep undetermined; refrain from forming or concluding definitely: to suspend one's judgment.

5.	to defer or postpone: to suspend sentence on a convicted person.

6.	to cause to cease or bring to a stop or stay, usually for a time: to suspend payment.

7.	to cause to cease for a time from operation or effect, as a law, rule, privilege, service, or the like: to suspend ferry service.

8.	to debar, usually for a limited time, from the exercise of an office or function or the enjoyment of a privilege: The student was suspended from school.

9.	to keep in a mood or feeling of expectation or incompleteness; keep waiting in suspense: Finish the story; don't suspend us in midair.

10.	Music. to prolong (a note or tone) into the next chord.

–verb (used without object)

11.	to come to a stop, usually temporarily; cease from operation for a time.

12.	to stop payment; be unable to meet financial obligations.

13.	to hang or be suspended, as from another object: The chandelier suspends from the ceiling.

14.	to be suspended, as in a liquid, gas, etc.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME suspenden < L suspendere to hang up, equiv. to sus- sus- + pendere (transit.) to hang (see pend, suspense )

Related forms:

sus⋅pend⋅i⋅ble, adjective

sus⋅pend⋅i⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun

Synonyms:
6. hold up, intermit. See interrupt.

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sus·pend (sə-spěnd')

v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends

v. tr.

To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school.
To cause to stop for a period; interrupt: suspended the trial.
1. To hold in abeyance; defer: suspend judgment. See Synonyms at defer¹.
2. To render temporarily ineffective: suspend a jail sentence; suspend all parking regulations.
To hang so as to allow free movement: suspended the mobile from the ceiling.
To support or keep from falling without apparent attachment, as by buoyancy: suspend oneself in the water.

v. intr.

To cease for a period; delay.
To fail to make payments or meet obligations.

[Middle English suspenden, from Old French suspendre, from Latin suspendere : sub-, from below; see sub- + pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]

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Word Origin & History

suspend

c.1290, "to bar or exclude temporarily from some function or privilege, to cause to cease for a time," from O.Fr. suspendre, from L. suspendere "to hang, stop," from sub "up from under" + pendere "cause to hang, weigh" (see pendant). The lit. sense of "to cause to hang by a support from above" is recorded from c.1440. Suspenders is attested from 1810, Amer.Eng. Suspended animation first recorded 1795.

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Main Entry: sus·pend
Function: transitive verb
1 : to debar temporarily from a privilege, office, or function
2 a : to stop temporarily <suspend trading> b : to make temporarily ineffective <suspend a license> c : STAY <suspend a hearing> d : to defer until a later time —see also suspended sentence at SENTENCE

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