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sus⋅pend

  [suh-spend]
Use self-suspended in a Sentence
–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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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

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
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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