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suspended

/səˈspɛndɪd/
verb

  1. To halt something temporarily.

    "The meeting was suspended for lunch."

  2. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

    "to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief"

  3. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

    "to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program"

Antonymsresume
adjective

  1. Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.

  2. Hung from above.

  3. (of an ovule) Attached slightly below the summit of the ovary.

Synonymsabeyant, dormant, paused

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