1. (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment
   "droplets suspended in a gas"; "suspended matter such as silt or mud …"; "dust particles suspended in the air"

1. Stop a process, activity or a habit
   "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country";
   - freeze
    
2. Support something by hanging it from above
   "They suspended the chandelier from the ceiling"
    
3. Make inoperative or stop
   "suspend payments on the loan";
   - set aside
    
4. Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
   "The student was suspended for a week due to misconduct";
   - debar
    
5. Render temporarily ineffective
   "the prison sentence was suspended"
    
6. (chemistry) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
   "suspend the particles"

See also: supported

Type of: alter, break, change, defer, expel, hang, hang up, hold over, interrupt, kick out [informal], modify, postpone, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table [N. Amer], throw out

Encyclopedia: Suspended