suspend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cause to be held in suspension in a fluid

   suspend the particles

2. 2
   verb

   make inoperative or stop

   suspend payments on the loan

3. 3
   verb

   hang freely

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

4. 4
   verb

   render temporarily ineffective

   the prison sentence was suspended

5. 5
   verb

   To halt something temporarily.

   The meeting was suspended for lunch.

6. 6
   verb

   To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

   suspending out judgement

7. 7
   verb

   To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

   to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program

8. 8
   verb

   To hang freely; underhang.

   to suspend a ball by a thread

Etymology

From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.