suspend

present (v1)

suspend

past (v2)

suspended

past participle (v3)

suspended

present participle

suspending

3rd person singular

suspends

1. 1.To halt something temporarily.

   • The meeting was suspended for lunch.
   • Suspend your indignation against my brother.
   • The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.

2. 2.To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

3. 3.To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

4. 4.To hang freely; underhang.

   • The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.

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