Suspend

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school.
  • v. To cause to stop for a period; interrupt: suspended the trial.
  • v. To hold in abeyance; defer: suspend judgment. See Synonyms at defer1.
  • v. To render temporarily ineffective: suspend a jail sentence; suspend all parking regulations.
  • v. To hang so as to allow free movement: suspended the mobile from the ceiling.
  • v. To support or keep from falling without apparent attachment, as by buoyancy: suspend oneself in the water.
  • verb-intransitive. To cease for a period; delay.
  • verb-intransitive. To fail to make payments or meet obligations.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To halt something temporarily
  • v. To hang freely; underhang
  • v. To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid
  • v. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To attach to something above; to hang.
  • v. To make to depend.
  • v. To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
  • v. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
  • v. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
  • v. To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect
  • v. To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
  • verb-intransitive. To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cause to hang; make to depend from anything; hang: as, to suspend a ball by a thread; hence, to hold, or keep from falling or sinking, as if by hanging: as, solid particles suspended in a liquid.
  • To make to depend (on).
  • To cause to cease for a time; hinder from proceeding; interrupt; stay; delay: as, all business was suspended.
  • To hold undetermined; refrain from forming or concluding definitely: as, to suspend one's opinion.
  • To debar, usually for a time, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, or from the enjoyment of income: as, a student suspended for some breach of discipline (rarely, in this use, suspended from college).
  • To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect: as, to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act; to suspend the rules of a deliberative assembly.
  • In music, to hold back or postpone the progression of (a voice-part) while the other parts proceed, usually producing a temporary discord. See suspension, 5.
  • To cease from operation; desist from active employment; specifically, to stop payment, or be unable to meet one's engagements.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make inoperative or stop
  • v. render temporarily ineffective
  • v. hang freely
  • v. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
  • v. cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
  • v. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
  • Verb Form
    suspended    suspending    suspends   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter    prorogue    defer    holdover    postpone    put over    remit    setback   
    Cross Reference
    hang    intermit    adjourn    defer    payments    to suspend payment   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    intermit    stay    hinder    debar    delay    hang    interrupt   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    End    Friend    Mende    Wend    abend    amend    append    apprehend    ascend    attend   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts