suspend

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 2.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To halt something temporarily.

   The meeting was suspended for lunch.

2. verb To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
3. verb To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

   to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program

4. verb To hang freely; underhang.

   to suspend a ball by a thread

5. verb To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
6. verb To make to depend.
7. verb 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

8. verb To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

Similar words

debar set aside freeze suspensive suspension stoppage stand-down cease stop ceasing

Often followed by

the or their a his all its judgment it any

Word family

suspended suspending suspends suspension