suspended
/səˈspɛndɪd/
Dictionary
verb
- To halt something temporarily.
"The meeting was suspended for lunch."
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
"to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief"
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
"to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program"
- To hang freely; underhang.
"to suspend a ball by a thread"
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To make to depend.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
"to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club"
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- (travel) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
adjective
- Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.
- Hung from above.
- (of an ovule) Attached slightly below the summit of the ovary.
- (of coffee, food, etc.) Paid for but not consumed by a customer, so that it can be given to a less fortunate person.
- A chemical suspension
- (of a chord) Having had its third omitted and replaced with a major second or perfect fourth.
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