suspend
verb
- remove temporarily
- lift above the ground from above
- put a stop to, temporarily, temporarily halt a process
- receive a punitive suspension
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /səsˈpɛnd/
verb
Etymology: From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.
- To halt something temporarily.
“The meeting was suspended for lunch.”
“Suspend your indignation against my brother.”
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
“suspending out judgement”
- 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”
“The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.”
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To make to depend.
“God hath all along in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.”
- 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”
“Whether good men should be suspended from the exercise of their ministry , and deprived of their livelyhood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.”
- 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.