SUSPEND

(STOP) [verb] [T] - to stop or to cause to be not active, either temporarily or permanentlyThe ferry service has been suspended because of bad weather.The company's share price fell so low that trading had to be suspended.The President has suspended the constitution and assumed total power.Both sides in the conflict have agreed temporarily to suspend hostilities.The talks have been suspended indefinitely.When you go to the theatre, you have to be willing to suspend disbelief (= to act as if you believe that what you are seeing is real or true, although you know that it is not).I'm suspending judgment (= not forming an opinion) on the book I'm reading until I've got a bit further through it.(legal) Mr Young was given a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years. (= If he commits another crime within two years, he will have to go to prison for six months for his original crime.)If someone is suspended, they are temporarily not allowed to work, go to school or take part in an activity because they have done something wrong.The doctors were suspended for three months after being found guilty of misconduct.She was suspended from school for fighting.He was suspended from playing football for four matches after arguing with the referee.Suspended animation is a state in which life in a body is temporarily slowed down or stopped.Some animals, such as hedgehogs, exist in a state of suspended animation during the winter.(figurative) A cut in interest rates would lift the economy out of its current state of suspended animation.