What is the meaning of suspend?

verb

  • Hang freely.
    • usage: "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
  • Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid.
    • usage: "suspend the particles"
  • Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc..
  • Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it.
    • usage: "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
  • Make inoperative or stop.
    • usage: "suspend payments on the loan"
  • Render temporarily ineffective.
    • usage: "the prison sentence was suspended"
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