suspend

Meanings

1. To halt something temporarily.
2. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
3. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
4. To hang freely; underhang.
5. To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
6. To make to depend.
7. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
8. To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
9. To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.

Etymology

From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.

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