suspend

v 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, of particles, in

chemistry

3: bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. [syn: {debar}]

4: stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;

"Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" [syn: {freeze}]

5: make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"

[syn: {set aside}]

6: as of a prison sentence