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Words related to suspend

Related / Similar Words: freeze, set aside, debar

Definition:

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

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";

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

bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.;

as of a prison sentence;

Hyponyms: resuspend, dangle, send down, rusticate

Entailments: punish, penalize, penalise

Derivational Morphology: suspension, dangling, hanging, pause, intermission, break, interruption, abeyance, respite, reprieve, hiatus, abatement, freeze, halt, brace, suspender, gallus, debarment, temporary removal

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