verb
- Hang freely.
- usage: "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
- synonyms: suspend
- Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid.
- usage: "suspend the particles"
- synonyms: suspend
- Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc..
- Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it.
- usage: "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
- Make inoperative or stop.
- usage: "suspend payments on the loan"
- Render temporarily ineffective.
- usage: "the prison sentence was suspended"
- synonyms: suspend
adjective
- Of undissolved particles in a fluid. ( supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment)
- usage: "suspended matter such as silt or mud..."; "dust particles suspended in the air"; "droplets in suspension in a gas"
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