suspend meaning and definition

SUSPEND verb

Definition of suspend (verb)

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.
   • synonyms: debar
4. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
   • "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
   • synonyms: freeze
5. make inoperative or stop
   • "suspend payments on the loan"
   • synonyms: set aside
6. render temporarily ineffective
   • "the prison sentence was suspended"