suspend

Verbs

  • (v) hang freely
    • The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
  • (v) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
    • suspend the particles
  • (v) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. debar,
  • (v) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
    • Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
    freeze,
  • (v) make inoperative or stop
    • suspend payments on the loan
    set aside,
  • (v) render temporarily ineffective
    • the prison sentence was suspended

Synonyms

debar freeze set aside

Words of close approximity

suspect
suspended suspended animation suspender suspender belt