Defenition of the word suspend
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Defenition of the word suspend
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, event or service.
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid, of particles, in chemistry
- hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
- as of a prison sentence
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- make inoperative or stop
- hang freely
- render temporarily ineffective
Synonyms for the word suspend
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- adjourn
- dangle
- debar
- defer
- delay
- freeze
- hang
- hang up
- leave to another time
- postpone
- push back
- put back
- put off
- put on hold
- put on ice
- rearrange
- reschedule
- set aside
- shelve
- swing
Similar words in the suspend
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- suspend
- suspended
- suspender
- suspenders
- suspending
- suspends
Hyponyms for the word suspend
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- dangle
- resuspend
- rusticate
- send down
Hypernyms for the word suspend
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- alter
- break
- change
- defer
- expel
- hang
- hang up
- hold over
- interrupt
- kick out
- modify
- postpone
- prorogue
- put off
- put over
- remit
- set back
- shelve
- table
- throw out
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