Suspend
verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 To halt something temporarily.
"The meeting was suspended for lunch."
- 2 cause to be held in suspension in a fluid wordnet
- 3 To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
"suspending out judgement"
- 4 stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it wordnet
- 5 To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
"to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program"
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- 6 make inoperative or stop wordnet
- 7 To hang freely; underhang.
"to suspend a ball by a thread"
- 8 hang freely wordnet
- 9 To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- 10 bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. wordnet
- 11 To make to depend. obsolete
"God hath all along in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life."
- 12 render temporarily ineffective wordnet
- 13 To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
"to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club"
- 14 To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- 15 To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
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More examples"Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt."
Etymology
From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.
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