suspended

suspended
    adj 1: (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"
    

Suspend \Sus*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suspended}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Suspending}.] [F. suspendre, or OF. souspendre (where
   the prefix is L. subtus below, from sub under), L.
   suspendere, suspensum; pref. sus- (see {Sub-}) + pendere to
   hang. See {Pedant}, and cf. {Suspense}, n.]
   1. To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a
      ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
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   2. To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of
      eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of
      life. [Archaic] --Tillotson.
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   3. To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding;
      to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
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            Suspend your indignation against my brother. --Shak.
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            The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near
            At once suspends their courage and their fear.
                                                  --Denham.
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   4. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to
      suspend one's judgment or opinion. --Locke.
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   5. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any
      privilege, from the execution of an office, from the
      enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from
      college; to suspend a member of a club.
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            Good men should not be suspended from the exercise
            of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood
            for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged
            indifferent.                          --Bp.
                                                  Sanderson.
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   6. To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as,
      to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of
      a legislative body.
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   7. (Chem.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by
      stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
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   {To suspend payment} (Com.), to cease paying debts or
      obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc.
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   Syn: To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay; hinder;
        debar.
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118 Moby Thesaurus words for "suspended":
      abeyant, apathetic, broken, broken off, cascading, cataleptic,
      catatonic, chopped-off, choppy, dangling, dead, decousu, dependent,
      depending, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete,
      disjunctive, dopey, dormant, dull, episodic, extra, falling,
      falling loosely, fitful, flat, flowing, foul, fresh, groggy,
      hanging, heavy, held back, held in reserve, held out, herky-jerky,
      hung, in abeyance, in hand, in suspense, inactive, incoherent,
      inert, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky,
      languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, logy, mint, new,
      noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform,
      original, parenthetic, passive, patchy, pendent, pending,
      pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile, phlegmatic,
      pristine, put aside, put by, reserve, saved, scrappy, sedentary,
      slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, snatchy, spare,
      spasmodic, spotty, stagnant, standing, static, stored, swinging,
      tame, to spare, torpid, unapplied, unaroused, unbeaten,
      unconnected, unconsumed, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended,
      unhandled, unjoined, unspent, unsuccessive, untapped, untouched,
      untrodden, unused, unutilized, waived, weeping