suspend
Verb
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Hang freely (synset 201483784)
"The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"subtypes: dangle - cause to dangle or hang freely
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Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid (synset 200148583)
"suspend the particles"referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactionssubtypes: resuspend - put back into suspension
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Bar temporarily;
From school, office, etc. (synset 202507686)same as: debar -
Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it (synset 200364146)
"Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"same as: freeze
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Make inoperative or stop (synset 200543748)
"suspend payments on the loan"same as: set aside
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Render temporarily ineffective (synset 202649824)
"the prison sentence was suspended"
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