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SUSPEND

Definition:

1. [verb] hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
   
   
2. [verb] cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"
   
   
3. [verb] bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
   Synonyms: debar
   
   
4. [verb] stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
   Synonyms: freeze
   
   
5. [verb] make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"
   Synonyms: set aside
   
   
6. [verb] as of a prison sentence
   
   

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Related Words:

• dangle
• resuspend
• send down, rusticate

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