to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
to attach so as to allow free movement: to suspend a door on a hinge.
to keep from falling, sinking, forming a deposit, etc., as if by hanging: to suspend solid particles in a liquid.
to hold or keep undetermined; refrain from forming or concluding definitely: to suspend one's judgment.
to defer or postpone: to suspend sentence on a convicted person.
to cause to cease or bring to a stop or stay, usually for a time: to suspend payment.
to cause to cease for a time from operation or effect, as a law, rule, privilege, service, or the like: to suspend ferry service.
to debar, usually for a limited time, from the exercise of an office or function or the enjoyment of a privilege: The student was suspended from school.
to keep in a mood or feeling of expectation or incompleteness; keep waiting in suspense: Finish the story; don't suspend us in midair.
Music. to prolong (a note or tone) into the next chord.
verb (used without object)
to come to a stop, usually temporarily; cease from operation for a time.
to stop payment; be unable to meet financial obligations.
to hang or be suspended, as from another object: The chandelier suspends from the ceiling.
to be suspended, as in a liquid, gas, etc.
Origin of suspend
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English suspenden, from Latin suspendere “to hang up,” equivalent to sus- sus- + pendere (transitive) “to hang” (see pend, suspense)
SYNONYMS FOR suspend
6 hold up, intermit.
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6. See interrupt.
OTHER WORDS FROM suspend
sus·pend·i·ble,adjectivesus·pend·i·bil·i·ty,nounnon·sus·pend·ed,adjectivepre·sus·pend,verb (used with object)
He was suspended by the league until he agreed to stand for the anthem and was traded after the season to the Sacramento Kings, where his NBA career effectively ended in 1998.
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Other sports followed, just as they did in March when the season was suspended four months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Swing states such as Florida and Wisconsin have suspended efforts to send teams to nursing homes to assist with voting.
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The status of “suspended” simply means we are waiting for additional information before closing this complaint.
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Faulconer and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo are asking the appellate court to suspend that order to prevent the companies from following through on their threats to pull out of California if forced to comply.
Faulconer Wades Into Uber Fight|Sara Libby|August 20, 2020|Voice of San Diego
One of the clever things the Nazis did in the last days of the Weimar Republic was suspend freedom of the press.