Suspend

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›nd

Full definition of suspend

Verb

1. To halt something temporarily.The meeting was suspended for lunch.
• ShakespeareSuspend your indignation against my brother.
• DenhamThe guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near
  At once suspends their courage and their fear.
2. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
3. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
4. To hang freely; underhang.to suspend a ball by a thread
5. To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
6. (obsolete) To make to depend.
• TillotsonGod hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
7. 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
• Bishop SandersonGood men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
8. (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

Antonyms

• (to halt something temporarily; to discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event) resume

Anagrams

• sends up
• sendups