suspend
英 [s?'spend]
美[s?'sp?nd]
- vt. 延缓，推迟；使暂停；使悬浮
- vi. 悬浮；禁赛
英英释意
- 1. hang freely;
- "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
- 2. cause to be held in suspension in a fluid;
- "suspend the particles"
- 3. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- 4. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;
- "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
- 5. make inoperative or stop;
- "suspend payments on the loan"
- 6. as of a prison sentence