v.tr.
1. hang up.
2 keep inoperative or undecided for a time; defer.
3 debar temporarily from a function, office, privilege, etc.
4 (as suspended adj.) (of solid particles or a body in a fluid medium) sustained somewhere between top and bottom.
Phrases and idioms:
suspended animation a temporary cessation of the vital functions without death. suspended sentence a judicial sentence left unenforced subject to good behaviour during a specified period. suspend payment (of a company) fail to meet its financial engagements; admit insolvency.
Derivatives:
suspensible adj.
Etymology: ME f. OF suspendre or L suspendere suspens- (as SUB-, pendere hang)