Suspend

/səsˈpɛnd/ · verb

Meaning

To halt something temporarily..

Definitions by Sense

1. To halt something temporarily.
2. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
3. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
4. To hang freely; underhang.
5. To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
6. (obsolete) To make to depend.
7. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
8. (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

Example Sentences

The meeting was suspended for lunch.

Suspend your indignation against my brother.

The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.

Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].

Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.

“Essentially everything Miller says about suspending habeas corpus – which would eliminate the ability of the courts to rule on immigration matters – is wrong,” CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said. […] The Constitution only allows habeas corpus to be suspended when “in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”

suspending out judgement

to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program

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• suspends
• suspending
• suspended

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