suspend
Từ điển Collocation
suspend verb
ADV. immediately | indefinitely | temporarily Funding for the new building has been temporarily suspended. | effectively
VERB + SUSPEND agree to, decide to, vote to The government has decided to suspend production at the country's biggest lead plant. | threaten to | be forced to
PHRASES the power to suspend sth The EU should have the power to suspend subsidy payments to farmers who pollute the environment.
Từ điển WordNet
v.
- hang freely
The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
suspend the particles
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.; debar
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; freeze
Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
- make inoperative or stop; set aside
suspend payments on the loan
- render temporarily ineffective
the prison sentence was suspended
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
vb. To halt a process temporarily. See also sleep.
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
suspends|suspended|suspending
syn.: arrest break defer delay halt hang hold over interrupt postpone shelve sling