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

(en verb)

(of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

(of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.

(of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.

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(of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.

To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.

To associate.

To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.