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ENGLISH: suspend - CREOLE: sispann

Overview of verb suspend

The verb suspend has 6 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)

1. (8) suspend -- (hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them")

2. (4) suspend -- (cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles")

3. (2) suspend, debar -- (bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.)

4. (2) freeze, suspend -- (stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country")

5. (1) suspend, set aside -- (make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan")

6. suspend -- (render temporarily ineffective; "the prison sentence was suspended")