Suspend Definition

sə-spĕnd

suspended, suspends

verb

suspended, suspends

To bar or exclude as a penalty from an office, school, position, etc., usually for a specified time; debar.

Webster's New World

To cause to cease or become inoperative for a time; stop temporarily.

To suspend train service, to suspend a rule.

Webster's New World

To stop temporarily.

Webster's New World

To defer or hold back (judgment), as until more is known.

Webster's New World

To hold in abeyance or defer action on (a sentence, etc.)

Webster's New World

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idiom

suspend disbelief

To accept as plausible something one knows to be untrue, especially the setting and plot of a drama or fiction so as to allow the appreciation of art.

American Heritage

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Suspend

Middle English suspenden from Old French suspendre from Latin suspendere sub- from below sub– pendere to hang (s)pen- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition