suspend

Meanings

• hang freely
  • "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
• cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
  • "suspend the particles"
• bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
• stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
  • "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
• make inoperative or stop
  • "suspend payments on the loan"
• render temporarily ineffective
  • "the prison sentence was suspended"

Synonyms

debar, freeze, set aside