Definitions for suspended



Overview of verb suspend

The verb suspend has 6 senses? (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (8) suspend

(hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them")

2. (4) suspend

(cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles")

3. (2) suspend, debar

(bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.)

4. (2) freeze, suspend

(stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country")

5. (1) suspend, set aside

(make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan")

6. suspend

(render temporarily ineffective; "the prison sentence was suspended")


Overview of adj suspended

The adj suspended has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (7) suspended

((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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