suspend

verb

1. hang freely

   verb.contact

   Examples

   The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them.

   Synonyms dangle drop swing

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. cause to be held in suspension in a fluid

   verb.change

   Examples

   Suspend the particles.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

3. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

   verb.social

   Synonyms debar

   Source: WordNet 3.0

4. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it

   verb.change

   Examples

   Suspend the aid to the war-torn country.

   Synonyms freeze

   Source: WordNet 3.0

5. make inoperative or stop

   verb.change

   Examples

   Suspend payments on the loan.

   Synonyms set aside

   Source: WordNet 3.0

6. render temporarily ineffective

   verb.stative

   Examples

   The prison sentence was suspended.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

7. To attach to something above; to hang; as, to <i>suspend</i> a ball by a thread; to <i>suspend</i> a needle by a loadstone.

   verb

   Source: webster1913

8. 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).

   verb

   Source: webster1913