SUSPEND


Meaning of SUSPEND in English

v.tr.

1. hang up.

2 keep inoperative or undecided for a time; defer.

3 debar temporarily from a function, office, privilege, etc.

4 (as suspended adj.) (of solid particles or a body in a fluid medium) sustained somewhere between top and bottom.

Phrases and idioms:

suspended animation a temporary cessation of the vital functions without death. suspended sentence a judicial sentence left unenforced subject to good behaviour during a specified period. suspend payment (of a company) fail to meet its financial engagements; admit insolvency.

Derivatives:

suspensible adj.

Etymology: ME f. OF suspendre or L suspendere suspens- (as SUB-, pendere hang)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.