suspend


suspend (http://definr.com/suspend)

     v 1: hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from
          the ceiling and beat them"
     2: cause to be held in suspension in a fluid, of particles, in
        chemistry
     3: bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. [syn: debar]
     4: stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;
        "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" [syn: freeze]
     5: make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"
        [syn: set aside]
     6: as of a prison sentence