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hang

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Verb (6 meanings)

1. hang freely.

Example:

“The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them”

to suspend is a way to:

to hang, hang up (verb) - cause to be hanging or suspended

ways to suspend:

to dangle (verb) - cause to dangle or hang freely

to suspend is derivationally related to:

brace, suspender, gallus (noun) - elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)
suspension, dangling, hanging (noun) - the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

2. cause to be held in suspension in a fluid.

Example:

“suspend the particles”

to suspend is a way to:

to change, alter, modify (verb) - cause to change

ways to suspend:

to resuspend (verb) - put back into suspension

to suspend is derivationally related to:

suspension, dangling, hanging (noun) - the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
suspension (noun) - a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy

Domain of synset - TOPIC:

chemistry, chemical science (noun) - the science of matter

3. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc..

to suspend, debar

to suspend is a way to:

to expel, throw out, kick out (verb) - force to leave or move out

ways to suspend:

to send down, rusticate (verb) - suspend temporarily from college or university, in England

to suspend is derivationally related to:

debarment (noun) - the act of prevention by legal means
suspension, temporary removal (noun) - a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)

to suspend entails:

to punish, penalize, penalise (verb) - impose a penalty on

4. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it.

to freeze, suspend

Example:

“Suspend the aid to the war-torn country”

to suspend is a way to:

to interrupt, break (verb) - terminate

to suspend is derivationally related to:

abeyance, suspension (noun) - temporary cessation or suspension
freeze, halt (noun) - an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension (noun) - a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
suspension, respite, reprieve, hiatus, abatement (noun) - an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

5. make inoperative or stop.

to suspend, set aside

Example:

“suspend payments on the loan”

to suspend is a way to:

to change, alter, modify (verb) - cause to change

6. render temporarily ineffective.

Example:

“the prison sentence was suspended”

to suspend is a way to:

to postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off (verb) - hold back to a later time