means The state of being held up or hung from a support, or the act of temporarily stopping or removing something—whether a player from a game, a payment, or a particle floating in liquid.

from From Latin 'suspendere,' to hang up, built from 'sub-' (up from under) and 'pendere' (to hang, to weigh)—the same 'pendere' that gives us 'pendant,' 'pendulum,' and 'pending,' all things left dangling. The sense of hanging stretched naturally into the figurative: a suspended sentence, a suspended player, a moment of suspense all share that feeling of being held aloft, waiting, touching nothing solid.