suspend

Verb

Verb Forms: suspended, suspending, suspends

To temporarily stop or prevent something from continuing; to hang.
hang freely
- "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- "suspend the particles"
bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
make inoperative or stop
- "suspend payments on the loan"
render temporarily ineffective
- "the prison sentence was suspended"
To halt something temporarily.
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
To hang freely; underhang.
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 support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.

Examples

The meeting was suspended for lunch.
The referee had to suspend the game when a tile fell off the board.
to suspend a ball by a thread
to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club
to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program

Origin / Etymology

From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.

Synonyms

debar, freeze, set aside

Antonyms

resume

Scrabble Score: 10

suspend: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
suspend: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
suspend: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

suspend: valid Words With Friends Word