suspend
(verb)
verb
1. hang freely
- The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
Definition categories: contact, hang
2. cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- suspend the particles
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
3. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
Similar word(s): debar
Definition categories: social, expel
4. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
Similar word(s): freeze
Definition categories: change, break, interrupt
5. make inoperative or stop
- suspend payments on the loan
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
6. render temporarily ineffective
- the prison sentence was suspended
Definition categories: stative, defer, postpone, prorogue, remit, shelve, table
Sentences with suspend as a verb:
- The meeting was suspended for lunch.
- to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
- to suspend a ball by a thread
- to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club