Overview of verb suspend

The verb suspend has 6 senses

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


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


• suspend, debar -- (bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.)


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


• suspend, set aside -- (make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan")


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

Overview of adj suspended

The adj suspended has 1 sense

• 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")