<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>The act of suspending.</li><li>The state of being suspended.</li><li>Temporary abrogation or withholding, as of a law, privilege, decision, belief, etc.</li><li>Stoppage of payment of debts or claims because of financial inability or insolvency.</li><li>The state in which the particles of a substance are mixed with a fluid but are undissolved.</li><li>A substance in such a state.</li><li>A system consisting of small particles kept dispersed by agitation or by the molecular motion in the surrounding medium.</li><li>Something on or by which something else is suspended or hung.</li><li>Something that is suspended or hung.</li><li>The arrangement of springs, shock absorbers, hangers, etc., in an automobile, railway car, etc., connecting the wheel-suspension units or axles to the chassis frame.</li><li>A wire, filament, or group of wires by which the conducting part of an instrument or device is suspended.</li><li>The prolongation of a tone in one chord into the following chord, usually producing a temporary dissonance.</li><li>The tone so prolonged.</li><li>The heightening of interest by delay of the main subject or clause, especially by means of a series of parallel preceding elements.</li></ul>