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

(dangl)

to hang loosely with the ability to swing

* Hudibras

He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.

* Tennyson

From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.

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(intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.

To hang or trail something loosely.

To trail or follow around.

* 1833 , Miller's Modern Acting Drama

To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.