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English to English verb
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hang freely |  | Example: The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
source: wordnet30
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cause to be held in suspension in a fluid | | Example: suspend the particles
source: wordnet30
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bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | | source: wordnet30
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stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | | Example: Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
source: wordnet30
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make inoperative or stop | | Example: suspend payments on the loan
source: wordnet30
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render temporarily ineffective | | Example: the prison sentence was suspended
source: wordnet30
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To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone. | | source: webster1913
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To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank). | | source: webster1913
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