Synonyms for suspended

Grammar : Adj

Spell : suh-spend

Phonetic Transcription : səˈspɛnd

Définition of suspended

Origin : late 13c., "to bar or exclude temporarily from some function or privilege, to cause to cease for a time," from Old French suspendre, from Latin suspendere "to hang, stop," from sub "up from under" (see sub-) + pendere "cause to hang, weigh" (see pendant). The literal sense of "to cause to hang by a support from above" is recorded from mid-15c. Suspenders is attested from 1810, American English. Suspended animation first recorded 1795.

adj pensile
adj postponed

Example sentences :

The coverlet dropped from her breast; her hand was suspended with stiff fingers.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Could she ever pardon herself for this delay, when Mordecai is suspended?
Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox

To be sure my cousin would have suspended his judgment till he could have arrived.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

My mind has recovered in some degree its shaken and suspended faculties.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

He appeared to have suspended his labours, and to be occupied in thought.
Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Holding him suspended with one hand, with the other hand he proceeded to give him a beating.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

Still, still the hunter pursued; he suspended not the velocity of his course.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

The Gods have suspended their thunder over the head of the apostate.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

They were suspended by buoys about thirty feet below the surface of the water.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various

At that moment the wind dropped, and the combatants were suspended in mid-air.
Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 » by Various

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