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Adjective suspended has 2 senses
- 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"
Antonym: unsupported (indirect, via supported)
Antonym: unsupported (indirect, via supported)
- abeyant, inactive, in abeyance, suspended - temporarily inactive
Antonym: expedited (indirect, via delayed)
Verb suspend has 6 senses
- suspend - hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
--1 is one way to hang, hang up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- suspend - cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
They suspend the lights from the ceiling
- suspend, debar - bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
--3 is one way to expel, throw out, kick out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- freeze, suspend - stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
--4 is one way to interrupt, break
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- suspend, set aside - make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- suspend - as of a prison sentence
--6 is one way to postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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