Verb: suspend su'spend
- Stop a process, activity or a habit
"Suspend the aid to the war-torn country";
- freeze
- Support something by hanging it from above
"They suspended the chandelier from the ceiling"
- Make inoperative or stop
"suspend payments on the loan";
- set aside
- Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
"The student was suspended for a week due to misconduct";
- debar
- Render temporarily ineffective
"the prison sentence was suspended"
- (chemistry) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
"suspend the particles"
Derived forms: suspended, suspends, suspending
Type of: alter, break, change, defer, expel, hang, hang up, hold over, interrupt, kick out [informal], modify, postpone, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table [N. Amer], throw out
Encyclopedia: Suspend