Verb

(en verb)

To halt something temporarily.

The meeting was suspended for lunch.

* Shakespeare

Suspend your indignation against my brother.

* Denham

The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief

(John Locke)

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

to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program

To hang freely; underhang.

to suspend a ball by a thread

To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.

(obsolete) To make to depend.

* Tillotson

God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.

To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.

to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club

* Bishop Sanderson

Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.

(chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

Verb

(senseid)(lb) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.

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(lb) To order to leave.

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(lb) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.

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(lb) To reject; to refuse to accept.

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*:"He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him." ¶ "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?" ¶ "This morning, before father went downtown." ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.

To get a batsman out.

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To give someone a red card; to send off.

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, title= West Brom 1-3 Blackburn , passage=Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf.}}