He would have finished, being suspended (7)
I believe the answer is:
hovered
'suspended' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with fundamental existence as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'he would have finished' is the wordplay.
'would' becomes 'd' (as in 'we'd' - 'we would').
'have' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'finished' becomes 'over' (over can mean finished or ended).
'he'+'d'='hed'
'hed' going around 'over' is 'HOVERED'.
'being' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hovered that I've seen before include "Floated" , "Hung in the air" , "Remained in the air without moving" , "Remained in the one place in the air" .)