Suspend - Definition

v 1: hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims
from the ceiling and beat them"
2: cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the
particles"
3: bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. [syn: suspend,
debar]
4: stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;
"Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" [syn: freeze,
suspend]
5: make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"
[syn: suspend, set aside]
6: render temporarily ineffective; "the prison sentence was
suspended"