SUSPEND

• (verb) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid

  "suspend the particles"

• (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it

  "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"

  synonyms : freeze

• (verb) make inoperative or stop

  "suspend payments on the loan"

  synonyms : set aside

• (verb) hang freely

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

• (verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

  synonyms : debar

• (verb) render temporarily ineffective

  "the prison sentence was suspended"

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