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suspend

/səˈspɛnd/

verb

Meaning

  • To halt something temporarily.

    "The meeting was suspended for lunch."

  • To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

    "to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief"

  • To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

    "to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program"

  • To hang freely; underhang.

    "to suspend a ball by a thread"

  • To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.

  • To make to depend.

  • To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.

    "to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club"

  • To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

  • (travel) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.