0 past simple and past participle of suspend --
1 to stop something from being active, either temporarily or permanently: --
He was suspended for four games after arguing with the referee.
Mr Young was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years (= if he commits another crime within two years, he will have to go to prison for six months for his original crime).
I'm suspending judgment (= not forming an opinion) on the book I'm reading until I've finished it.
When you go to the theatre, you have to be willing to suspend disbelief (= to act as if you believe that what you are seeing is real or true, although you know that it is not).
The country's president has suspended the constitution and assumed total power.
The ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.
2 to hang: --
This emphasis on unfair trade practices suspended national planning and revitalized the market by discouraging cutthroat competition.
Dressed as an angel, the figure seems more suspended from the prominent golden wings attached to her costume than supporting them.
The trap interior contains an 18 cm polyethylene funnel which is suspended beneath the drainpipe by four chains.
A stroboscope was activated, illuminating a single suspended particle from the top of the flume and following it throughout its path.
Samples were filtered to remove the suspended material and analysed for cation concentrations.
It's an economic building: suspended ceilings, basic windows.
Variables involved in the suspended constraints behave as indexes into the global store: they have the suspensions attached to them as attributes.
The file is 4000 pages long, 32 judges have declared themselves incompetent to judge the case, which has effectively been suspended for six years.
