Meanings
- Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.
- medicinesuspended animation
- Hung from above.
There are already strong indications that the relatively high cost of one fully suspended motor with flexible drive to both bogie axles [...] is not much lower than the cost of two fully suspended motors; [...].
1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 727 - biologyAttached slightly below the summit of the ovary.
- usuallyfoodPaid for but not consumed by a customer, so that it can be given to a less fortunate person.
- chemistryA chemical suspension
- entertainmentHaving had its third omitted and replaced with a major second or perfect fourth.
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of suspend
Synonyms & antonyms
caused to stop for a while
adjective(of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مُعَلَّق
- مُعَلَّق (muʕallaq)hung from above
Bulgarian окачен, провесен
- окачен (okačen)hung from above
- провесен (provesen)hung from above
- спрян (sprjan)interrupted or delayed
- прекратен (prekraten)interrupted or delayed
Catalan en suspens
- en suspensinterrupted or delayed
Finnish riippuva, riippu-
- riippuvahung from above
- riippu-hung from above
French suspendu
- suspenduinterrupted or delayed
German unterbrochen
- unterbrocheninterrupted or delayed
Hindi स्थगित
- स्थगित (sthagit)interrupted or delayed
Italian pensile, sospeso
- pensilehung from above
- sospesointerrupted or delayed
- interrottointerrupted or delayed
- rimandatointerrupted or delayed
Russian подве́шенный, вися́щий
- подве́шенный (podvéšennyj)hung from above
- вися́щий (visjáščij)hung from above
- приостано́вленный (priostanóvlennyj)interrupted or delayed
- пре́рванный (prérvannyj)interrupted or delayed
- заде́ржанный (zadéržannyj)interrupted or delayed
Scottish Gaelic crochte
- crochtehung from above
Spanish suspendido, suspendido
- suspendidohung from above
- suspendidointerrupted or delayed
Swedish upphängd, hängande
- upphängdhung from above
- hängandehung from above
- avbruteninterrupted or delayed
- pausadinterrupted or delayed
Ukrainian підві́шений
- підві́шений (pidvíšenyj)hung from above
Urdu مُعَطَّل
- مُعَطَّل (mu'attal)interrupted or delayed
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with suspended
Cite this entry
suspended. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suspended
“suspended.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suspended. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suspended,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suspended.
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