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1. Hang freely
   "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
    
2. Stop a process, activity or a habit
   "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
   - freeze
    
3. Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
   "suspend the particles"
    
4. Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
   - debar
    
5. Make inoperative or stop
   "suspend payments on the loan"
   - set aside
    
6. Render temporarily ineffective
   "the prison sentence was suspended"

Derived forms: suspended, suspending, suspends

See also: suspender, suspension

Type of: alter, break, change, defer, expel, hang, hang up, hold over, interrupt, kick out, modify, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table [N. Amer], throw out

Encyclopedia: Suspend