suspend (English)

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hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"

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cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"

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bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

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stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"

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make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"

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render temporarily ineffective; "the prison sentence was suspended"