suspend

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To halt something temporarily.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

   • suspending out judgement
3. 3

   To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

   • to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
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   1. 4

      To hang freely

      To hang freely; underhang.

      • to suspend a ball by a thread
      • The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.
   2. 5

      To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.

   3. 6

      To make to depend.

      • God hath all along in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
   4. 7

      To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an…

      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
      • Whether good men should be suspended from the exercise of their ministry , and deprived of their livelyhood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
   5. 8

      To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical…

      To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

   6. 9

      To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow…

      To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.

The neighborhood

• antonymresumeantonym(s) of “to halt something temporarily, to discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event”
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