suspended

English Online Dictionary. What means suspended‎? What does suspended mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈspɛndɪd/
• Hyphenation: sus‧pend‧ed
• Rhymes: -ɛndɪd

Adjective

suspended

1. Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.
   1. (medicine) suspended animation
   2. (law) suspended sentence
2. Hung from above.
3. (botany, of an ovule) Attached slightly below the summit of the ovary.
4. (of coffee, food, etc.) Paid for but not consumed by a customer, so that it can be given to a less fortunate person.
5. (chemistry) A chemical suspension
6. (music, of a chord) Having had its third omitted and replaced with a major second or perfect fourth.

Quotations

Synonyms

• (caused to stop for a while): abeyant, dormant, paused; see also Thesaurus:inactive or Thesaurus:delayed

Derived terms

• suspended congress
• nose-suspended
• suspended coffee
• suspended hyphen

Translations

Verb

suspended

1. simple past and past participle of suspend

Derived terms

References

• “suspended”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “suspended”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Spanish

Verb

suspended

1. second-person plural imperative of suspender