adjourn

Verb

Verb Forms: adjourned, adjourning, adjourns

• To suspend a meeting or activity until a later time.
• close at the end of a session
  • "The court adjourned"
• break from a meeting or gathering
  • "We adjourned for lunch"
• To postpone.
• To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
• To end or suspend an event.
• To move as a group from one place to another.

Examples

• After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.
• Let’s adjourn this Scrabble game; my brain is fried from finding that Q-word.
• The court will adjourn for lunch.
• The trial was adjourned for a week.

Synonyms

break up, recess, retire, withdraw