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Meaning of suspend in English
Pronunciation
/səˈspɛnd/
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Verb
suspend
Etymology
Middle English: from Old French suspendre or Latin suspendere, from sub-‘from below’ + pendere‘hang’
Definitions
1.
hang freely
Examples
« The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them »
2.
cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
Examples
« suspend the particles »
3.
bar temporarily
Examples
« from school, office, etc. »
4.
stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
Examples
« Suspend the aid to the war-torn country »
5.
make inoperative or stop
Examples
« suspend payments on the loan »
6.
as of a prison sentence